Open your mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all who are left desolate.
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you; according to the greatness of your power preserve you those that are appointed to die;
[A Psalm of Asaph.] God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.
Wisdom is too lofty for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.
The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not such knowledge.
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
O house of David, thus says the LORD; Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
Does our law judge any man, before it hears him, and knows what he does?
And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Why shall he be slain? what has he done?