the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 31:8
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Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed.
Open your mouth for the mute, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.
"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the rights of all those who have nothing.
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open your mouth for the mute, In the cause of all who are left desolate.
Open your mouth for the mute, For the rights of all who are unfortunate and defenseless;
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.
Opene thi mouth for a doumb man,
Open thy mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are left desolate.
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the justice of all the dispossessed.
But you must defend those who are helpless and have no hope.
Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.
Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.
Speak up for those who can't speak for themselves, for the rights of all who need an advocate.
Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.
Speak up for people who cannot speak for themselves. Help people who are in trouble.
Open thy mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open thy mouth for the dumbe in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open your mouth for those who cannot speak, and for the rights of those who are left without help.
Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute.
Open thy mouth for the domme in the cause of all the children of destruction.
Open your mouth with words of truth, and judge all the sons of the wicked.
"Speak up for people who cannot speak for themselves. Protect the rights of all who are helpless.
Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all the children of the departed.
Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the children that pass.
Open your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of all who are left desolate.
Be thou an aduocate for the dumbe, [to speake] in the cause of all such as be succourlesse in this transitorie worlde.
Lawless men burn down a city: but wise men turn away wrath.
Speak up for those who have no voice,for the justice of all who are dispossessed.
Open your mouth for the mute, In the cause of all who are left desolate.
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the needy.
Open your mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all the sons of those passing away.
Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.
Be thou an aduocate & stonde in iudgment thyself, to speake for all soch as be dome & sucourles.
"Speak up for the people who have no voice, for the rights of all the down-and-outers. Speak out for justice! Stand up for the poor and destitute!"
Open your mouth for the people who cannot speak, For the rights of all the unfortunate.
Open your mouth for the speechless,In the cause of all who are appointed to die. [fn]
Open your mouth for the mute, For the rights of all the unfortunate.
Open your mouth for the mute,For the justice of all those passing away.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Open: Proverbs 24:7, Proverbs 24:11, Proverbs 24:12, 1 Samuel 19:4-7, 1 Samuel 20:32, 1 Samuel 22:14, 1 Samuel 22:15, Esther 4:13-16, Job 29:9, Job 29:17, Psalms 82:3, Psalms 82:4, Jeremiah 26:16-19, Jeremiah 26:24, Jeremiah 38:7-10, John 7:51
such: etc. Heb. the sons of destruction, Psalms 79:11, *marg.
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 25:1 - General 2 Samuel 17:7 - not good Proverbs 31:26 - openeth Ecclesiastes 3:7 - and a time to speak Isaiah 11:4 - reprove Jeremiah 21:12 - deliver Jeremiah 38:9 - these Ezekiel 18:8 - hath executed Habakkuk 1:13 - holdest Matthew 5:2 - General Romans 13:4 - he is
Cross-References
Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Open thy mouth for the dumb,.... Not who are naturally so, but who cannot speak in their own behalf, either through want of elocution, or knowledge of the laws; or who are bashful, timorous, and fearful, being overawed by the majesty of a court of judicature, or by their prosecutors; or who, as they have not a tongue, so not a purse, to speak for them, the fatherless and the widow; which latter has her name, in the Hebrew language, from dumbness. Here Lemuel's mother advises him to open his mouth freely, readily, boldly, and intrepidly, and plead for such persons. Even
in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction; whose destruction is resolved on by their accusers and prosecutors; and who are in danger of it, being charged with capital crimes; unless some persons of wisdom, power, and authority, interpose on their behalf. It may be rendered, "in the cause of all the children of change", or "passing away" s; the children of the world, which passeth away with all things in it, as Kimchi; or orphans, whose help passeth away, as Jarchi; or rather strangers, as others, who pass from place to place and whose state and condition is liable to many changes who may be ignorant of the laws of the country where they are, and may stand in need of persons to plead for them.
s בני חלוף "filiormn transitus", Montanus, Gejerus, Michaelis; "transeuntis, sub. seculi", Vatablus, so Ben Melech; "filiorum mutationis loci", Piscator; "filii mutationis, h. e. hujus mundi", Baynus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In contrast with the two besetting sins of Eastern monarchs stands their one great duty, to give help to those who had no other helper.
Such as are appointed to destruction - literally, “children of bereavement,” with the sense, either, as in the text, of those “destined to be bereaved of life or goods,” or of “bereaved or fatherless children.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 31:8. Open thy mouth for the dumb — For such accused persons as have no counsellors, and cannot plead for themselves.
Are appointed to destruction. — בני חלוף beney chaloph, variously translated, children of passage - indigent travellers; children of desolation - those who have no possessions, or orphans. I believe it either signifies those who are strangers, and are travelling from place to place, or those who are ready to perish in consequence of want or oppression.
