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Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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King James Version (1611 Edition)
Proverbs 31:9
Open thy mouth, iudge righteously, and plead the cause of the poore and needy.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Speak up, judge righteously,and defend the cause of the oppressed and needy.
Speak up, judge righteously,and defend the cause of the oppressed and needy.
Hebrew Names Version
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."
King James Version
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
English Standard Version
Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
New American Standard Bible
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the poor and needy.
New Century Version
Speak up and judge fairly, and defend the rights of the poor and needy."
Speak up and judge fairly, and defend the rights of the poor and needy."
Amplified Bible
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And administer justice for the afflicted and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And administer justice for the afflicted and needy.
World English Bible
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Open thy mouth: iudge righteously, and iudge the afflicted, and the poore.
Open thy mouth: iudge righteously, and iudge the afflicted, and the poore.
Legacy Standard Bible
Open your mouth, judge righteously,And render justice to the afflicted and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteously,And render justice to the afflicted and needy.
Berean Standard Bible
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
Contemporary English Version
Be fair and give justice to the poor and homeless.
Be fair and give justice to the poor and homeless.
Complete Jewish Bible
Speak up, judge righteously, defend the cause of the poor and the needy.
Speak up, judge righteously, defend the cause of the poor and the needy.
Darby Translation
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy.
Easy-to-Read Version
Stand up for what you know is right, and judge all people fairly. Protect the rights of the poor and those who need help.
Stand up for what you know is right, and judge all people fairly. Protect the rights of the poor and those who need help.
George Lamsa Translation
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Good News Translation
Speak for them and be a righteous judge. Protect the rights of the poor and needy."
Speak for them and be a righteous judge. Protect the rights of the poor and needy."
Lexham English Bible
Open your mouth, judge righteousness, and defend the poor and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteousness, and defend the poor and needy.
Literal Translation
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the poor and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the poor and needy.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
With yi mouth defende ye thinge yt is laufull and right, and ye cause of ye poore and helplesse.
With yi mouth defende ye thinge yt is laufull and right, and ye cause of ye poore and helplesse.
American Standard Version
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy.
Bible in Basic English
Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.
Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.
Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A wise man shall judge nations: but a worthless man being angry laughs and fears not.
A wise man shall judge nations: but a worthless man being angry laughs and fears not.
English Revised Version
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister judgment to the poor and needy.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister judgment to the poor and needy.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and opene thi mouth for the causes of alle sones that passen forth. Deme thou that that is iust, and deme thou a nedi man and a pore man.
and opene thi mouth for the causes of alle sones that passen forth. Deme thou that that is iust, and deme thou a nedi man and a pore man.
Update Bible Version
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And give justice to the poor and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And give justice to the poor and needy.
Webster's Bible Translation
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
New English Translation
Open your mouth, judge in righteousness, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Open your mouth, judge in righteousness, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
New King James Version
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy.
New Living Translation
Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice.
Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice.
New Life Bible
Open your mouth. Be right and fair in what you decide. Stand up for the rights of those who are suffering and in need.
Open your mouth. Be right and fair in what you decide. Stand up for the rights of those who are suffering and in need.
New Revised Standard
Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Open thy mouth - judge righteously, - and administer justice for the poor and the needy.
Open thy mouth - judge righteously, - and administer justice for the poor and the needy.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Open thy mouth, decree that which is just, and do justice to the needy and poor.
Open thy mouth, decree that which is just, and do justice to the needy and poor.
Revised Standard Version
Open your mouth, judge righteously, maintain the rights of the poor and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, maintain the rights of the poor and needy.
Young's Literal Translation
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
Contextual Overview
1 The wordes of King Lemuel, the prophecie that his mother taught him. 2 What, my sonne! and what, the sonne of my wombe! and what, the sonne of my vowes! 3 Giue not thy strength vnto women, nor thy wayes to that which destroyeth kings. 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drinke wine, nor for Princes, strong drinke: 5 Lest they drinke, and forget the Law, and peruert the iudgement of any of the afflicted. 6 Giue strong drinke vnto him that is ready to perish, and wine vnto those that be of heauie hearts. 7 Let him drinke, and forget his pouertie, and remember his misery no more. 8 Open thy mouth for the dumbe in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth, iudge righteously, and plead the cause of the poore and needy.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 16:12, Proverbs 20:8, Leviticus 19:15, Deuteronomy 1:16, Deuteronomy 16:18-20, 2 Samuel 8:15, Psalms 58:1, Psalms 58:2, Psalms 72:1, Psalms 72:2, Job 29:12, Job 29:15, Job 29:16, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 11:4, Isaiah 32:1, Isaiah 32:2, Jeremiah 5:28, Jeremiah 22:3, Jeremiah 22:15, Jeremiah 22:16, Jeremiah 23:5, Daniel 4:27, Amos 5:11, Amos 5:12, Zechariah 7:9, Zechariah 9:9, John 7:24, Hebrews 1:9, Revelation 19:11
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 25:1 - General 1 Samuel 19:4 - spake good 1 Samuel 20:32 - Wherefore 1 Samuel 22:14 - And who 2 Samuel 23:3 - must be just Proverbs 24:7 - openeth Proverbs 31:26 - openeth Ecclesiastes 3:7 - and a time to speak 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
Genesis 31:1
And he heard the words of Labans sonnes, saying, Iacob hath taken away all that was our fathers; and of that which was of our fathers, hath hee gotten all this glory.
And he heard the words of Labans sonnes, saying, Iacob hath taken away all that was our fathers; and of that which was of our fathers, hath hee gotten all this glory.
Genesis 31:2
And Iacob behelde the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as before.
And Iacob behelde the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as before.
Genesis 31:16
For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our childrens: now then whatsoeuer God hath said vnto thee, doe.
For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our childrens: now then whatsoeuer God hath said vnto thee, doe.
Psalms 50:10
For euery beast of the forrest is mine, and the cattell vpon a thousand hilles.
For euery beast of the forrest is mine, and the cattell vpon a thousand hilles.
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaueth an inheritance to his childrens children: and the wealth of the sinner is layd vp for the iust.
A good man leaueth an inheritance to his childrens children: and the wealth of the sinner is layd vp for the iust.
Matthew 20:15
Is it not lawfull for mee to doe what I wil with mine owne? Is thine eye euill, because I am good?
Is it not lawfull for mee to doe what I wil with mine owne? Is thine eye euill, because I am good?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Open thy mouth, judge righteously,.... Having heard the cause, pronounce a righteous sentence; deliver it freely and impartially, with all readiness and boldness, not caring for the censures of wicked and unjust men;
and plead the cause of the poor and needy; who are oppressed by the rich, cannot plead for themselves, nor fee others to plead for them; do thou do it freely and faithfully. Thus as Lemuel's mother cautions him against women and wine, she advises him to do the duties of his office in administering impartial justice to all, and particularly in being the advocate and judge of the indigent and distressed.
