Give strong drink to the one who (A)is perishing,
    and wine to (B)those in bitter distress;[a]
(C)let them drink and forget their poverty
    and remember their misery no more.
(D)Open your mouth for the mute,
    for the rights of all who are destitute.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 31:6 Hebrew those bitter in soul
  2. Proverbs 31:8 Hebrew are sons of passing away

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