פָּתַח

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.

“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

The king sent and freed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken,