Open your mouth for the speechless, In the cause of all who are appointed to die.

你当为哑巴开口，为一切孤独的伸冤。

你当为不能自辩的人开口，为所有孤独无助者伸冤。

你当为不能自辩的人开口，为所有孤独无助者伸冤。

要为不能自辩者说话，为一切不幸的人申冤。

你要为不能自辩的人开口说话，为所有贫苦的人伸冤。

你当为哑巴和所有孤苦人的争讼开口。

你當為啞巴開口，為一切孤獨的伸冤。

你當為不能自辯的人開口，為所有孤獨無助者伸冤。

你當為不能自辯的人開口，為所有孤獨無助者伸冤。

要為不能自辯者說話，為一切不幸的人伸冤。

你要為不能自辯的人開口說話，為所有貧苦的人伸冤。

你要為啞巴開口，為一切行將過去的人辦案件；

你當為啞巴和所有孤苦人的爭訟開口。

當為喑啞者啟口、為孤獨者伸冤、

喑者代為口、危者伸其冤。

爾當為不敢自辨者不敢自辨者原文作瘖者啟口、為一切孤獨者伸冤、

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.

Speak up for those who can’t speak for themselves. Speak up for the rights of all those who are poor.

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed.

Speak up for those who have no voice, for the justice of all who are dispossessed.

Open your mouth for the people who cannot speak, For the rights of all the unfortunate.

Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.

Speak up for those who have no voice, for the justice of all who are dispossessed.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy.Deliver the poor and needy; Free them from the hand of the wicked.

Deliver those who are drawn toward death, And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.If you say,“ Surely we did not know this,” Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, does He not know it? And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?

Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

So the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets,“ This man does not deserve to die. For he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”Then certain of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying:“ Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying,‘ Thus says the Lord of hosts:“ Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest.”’Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah ever put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and seek the LORD’s favor? And the Lord relented concerning the doom which He had pronounced against them. But we are doing great evil against ourselves.”

So Ahimelech answered the king and said,“ And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, who goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house?Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king impute anything to his servant, or to any in the house of my father. For your servant knew nothing of all this, little or much.”

“ Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

Now Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon. When the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,Ebed-Melech went out of the king’s house and spoke to the king, saying:“ My Lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon, and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is. For there is no more bread in the city.”Then the king commanded Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying,“ Take from here thirty men with you, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he dies.”

Because I delivered the poor who cried out, The fatherless and the one who had no helper.The blessing of a perishing man came upon me, And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; My justice was like a robe and a turban.I was eyes to the blind, And I was feet to the lame.I was a father to the poor, And I searched out the case that I did not know.I broke the fangs of the wicked, And plucked the victim from his teeth.

Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate.

And Mordecai told them to answer Esther:“ Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews.For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai:“ Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!”

Thus Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him,“ Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you.For he took his life in his hands and killed the Philistine, and the Lord brought about a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”So Saul heeded the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swore,“ As the Lord lives, he shall not be killed.”Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these things. So Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as in times past.

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; According to the greatness of Your power Preserve those who are appointed to die;

The princes refrained from talking, And put their hand on their mouth;

And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him,“ Why should he be killed? What has he done?”