1. Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
2. Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.
3. Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to 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 right.
5. They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.
6. Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?
7. Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.
8. When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9. But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
10. He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.