9 Bible Verses About Speak for the Voiceless
9 Bible verses about Speak for the Voiceless to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
Open your mouth for those who have no voice, for the cause of all who are left to perish. Speak out and judge rightly; take up the case of the poor and the needy.”
Learn to do good. Go after justice. Set the oppressor straight. Give the fatherless child a fair hearing; stand up for the widow in court.
Judge fairly for the weak and for orphans; declare the afflicted and the destitute in the right. Bring the weak and the poor to safety; snatch them from the grip of the wicked.
The LORD says this: Practice justice and righteousness. Rescue anyone who has been robbed from the power of the oppressor. Do not mistreat the outsider, the orphan or the widow, do not use violence against them, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Rescue those being dragged off to death; hold back those who are stumbling toward slaughter. If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not the one who weighs hearts see the truth? The one who watches over your life knows it well, and he will repay each person for what they have done.
because I rescued the poor who cried for help and the fatherless who had no one to help them.
How blessed are those who care about the weak! When trouble comes, the LORD will rescue them.
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and rescue will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows? Perhaps you have become queen for a time like this.”
The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.