1. Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2. My teaching will drop like the rain,my sayings will distill as the dew,as the droplets on the grass,and as the showers on the herb.
3. For I will proclaim the name of the Lord:Ascribe greatness to our God!
4. He is the Rock; His work is perfect;for all His ways are just.He is a God of faithfulness and without injustice;righteous and upright is He.
5. They have acted corruptly to Him;they are not His children, but blemished;they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6. Is this how you repay the Lord,you foolish and unwise people?Is He not your father, who has bought you?Has He not made you, and established you?
7. Remember the days of old,consider the years of previous generations.Ask your father, and he will show you;your elders, and they will tell you:
8. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,when He separated the sons of man,He set the boundaries of the peoplesaccording to the number of the children of Israel.
9. For the Lord’s portion is His people;Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
10. He found him in a desert landand in the howling waste of a wilderness;He led him about, He instructed him,He protected him like the pupil of His eye.
11. Like an eagle stirs up her nest,that flutters over her young,He spread out his wings and took him;He lifted him on His pinions;