I became dumb, keeping still; I was silent, from good; and my pain was stirred.
HE: O Jehovah, teach me the way of Your Precepts, and I shall keep it to the end.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your Law; yea, I shall observe it with all my heart.
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
He was oppressed, and He was afflicted; yet He opened not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.
Do not give that which is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and tear you.
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.