"To them I answered, 'It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to destruction before the accused meets the accusers face to face, and has opportunity to answer for himself concerning the charge against him.'

He who answers a matter before he hears [it,] It [is] folly and shame to him.

The first [one] to plead his cause [seems] right, Until his neighbor comes and examines him.

"Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?"

Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

"Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.

But to Israel he says: "All day long I have stretched out My hands To a disobedient and contrary people."

"I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because today I shall answer for myself before you concerning all the things of which I am accused by the Jews,

"Brethren and fathers, hear my defense before you now."