8  ^qOpen your mouth for the mute,

for the rights of all who are destitute.¹

9  Open your mouth, ^rjudge righteously,

^sdefend the rights of ^tthe poor and needy.

8  He has told you, O man, what is good;

and ^fwhat does the Lord require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,¹

and to ^gwalk humbly with your God?

16  ^jWash yourselves; make yourselves clean;

remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;

^kcease to do evil,

17  learn to do good;

^lseek justice,

correct oppression;

^mbring justice to the fatherless,

plead the widow’s cause.