1. Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2. My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
3. For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!
4. The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
5. They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.
6. Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
7. Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
8. When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
9. For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10. He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
11. As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.
12. Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
13. He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
14. butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.