1. Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2. My teaching shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3. Because I will proclaim the name of the LORD: ascribe you greatness unto our God.
4. He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are justice: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5. They have corrupted themselves, their blemish is not the blemish of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6. Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?