1. Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak;let the earth hear the words of my mouth!
2. May my teaching soak in like the rain,and my utterance drench like the dew,Like a downpour upon the grass,like a shower upon the crops.
3. For I will proclaim the name of the Lord,praise the greatness of our God!
4. The Rock—how faultless are his deeds,how right all his ways!A faithful God, without deceit,just and upright is he!
5. Yet his degenerate children have treated him basely,a twisted and crooked generation!
6. Is this how you repay the Lord,so foolish and unwise a people?Is he not your father who begot you,the one who made and established you?
7. Remember the days of old,consider the years of generations past.Ask your father, he will inform you,your elders, they will tell you:
8. When the Most High allotted each nation its heritage,when he separated out human beings,He set up the boundaries of the peoplesafter the number of the divine beings;
9. But the Lord’s portion was his people;his allotted share was Jacob.