The Bible tells its readers to speak up for people who cannot speak for themselves, and the prophets carried that demand to kings and to whole nations. Proverbs 31:8-9 gives it to a king, and Isaiah 1:17 tells Judah to “plead the case of the widow.” Jeremiah 22:3 takes the demand into the king’s palace, and Isaiah 58:1 tells the prophet, “Raise your voice like a trumpet.” The people named again and again are the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner…
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