Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the justice of all who are destitute.
princes refrained from talking and put their hand over their mouths;
Let the prisoner’s groan come to You. By Your great arm preserve those who are doomed to die.
A psalm of Asaph. God takes His stand in the assembly of God. He judges among the ‘gods’:
Wisdom is unattainable for a fool— he does not open his mouth at the gate.
A righteous person considers justice for the poor. The wicked one has no such concern.
let him drink, forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
O house of David, thus says Adonai: “Render justice by morning, and rescue the one who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Otherwise My fury will go forth like fire and burn so none can extinguish it, because of their evil deeds.”
Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they did not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
“Our Torah doesn’t judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”
But Jonathan answered his father Saul, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”