Pro 31:8-9, Isa 1:17, Jer 5:28 | ESV | STEP | Open your mouth for the mute , for the rights of all who are destitute .

Proverbs 31:8-9

8 ^aOpen your mouth for the mute,
for the rights of all who are destitute. ^{▼▼Hebrew are sons of passing away}
9 Open your mouth, ^cjudge righteously,
^ddefend the rights of ^ethe poor and needy.

Isaiah 1:17

17 learn to do good;
^fseek justice,
correct oppression;
^gbring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.

Jeremiah 5:28

28 ^hthey have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
ⁱthey judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.