Open your mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all the sons of the departed.
rulers held back their words, and laid a hand on their mouth;
Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You. According to the greatness of Your arm Preserve those appointed to death.
Elohim stands in the congregation of Ěl; He judges in the midst of the elohim.
Wisdom is high for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate.
The righteous knows the plea of the poor, The wrong does not understand such knowledge.
Let him drink and forget his poverty, And remember his trouble no more.
O house of Dawiḏ! Thus said יהוה, “Render right-ruling in the morning, and deliver him who has been robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My wrath go out like fire and burn, with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
However, the hand of Aḥiqam son of Shaphan was with Yirmeyahu, so as not to give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
Does our Torah judge the man unless it hears first from him and knows what he is doing?
And Yehonathan answered Sha’ul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”