1. "Listen, O heavens, to what I am saying. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2. Let my doctrine accumulate like the rain. Let my eloquence form like the dew, like a mist upon the plants, and like water droplets upon the grass.
3. For I will invoke the name of the Lord. Acknowledge the magnificence of our God!
4. The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments. God is faithful and without any iniquity. He is just and upright.
5. They have sinned against him, and in their filth they are not his sons. They are a depraved and perverse generation.
6. How can this be the return you would offer to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is he himself not your Father, who has possessed you, and made you, and created you?
7. Remember the days of antiquity. Consider each generation. Question your father, and he will declare it to you. Question your elders, and they will tell it to you.
8. When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the limits of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
9. But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob, the lot of his inheritance.