9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
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Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. …
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Most interpreters are of opinion that Lemuel is Solomon; the name signifies one that is for God , or devoted to God ; and so it agrees well enough with that honourable name which, by divine appointment, was given to Solomon (2 Sam. 12:25), Jedediah—beloved of the Lord . Lemuel is supposed to be a pretty, fond, endearing name, by which his mother used to call him; and so much did he value himself u…
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