3 Do not give your strength to women, Nor your ways to wiping away sovereigns.
4 Not for sovereigns, O Lemu’ĕl, Not for sovereigns to drink wine, Nor for princes to desire strong drink;
5 Lest they drink and forget the law, And pervert the right of all the afflicted.
6 Give strong drink to him who is perishing, And wine to those embittered in being.
7 Let him drink and forget his poverty, And remember his trouble no more.
8 Open your mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all the sons of the departed.
9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy.