1. Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2. My doctrine 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 invoke the name of the Lord, ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4. The strong One, whose work is perfect: for all his ways are right; a God of truth and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
5. They have corrupted themselves, their spot is that they are not his sons; they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6. Do ye thus repay the Lord, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not thy father that has possessed thee? He made thee and established thee.
7. Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee;
8. when the most High caused the Gentiles to be inherited, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
9. For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the measuring line of his inheritance.
10. He found him in a desert land and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11. As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings,
12. so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
13. He made him ride on the high places of the earth that he might eat the fruits of the field; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the strong flint,
14. butter of cows and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs and rams of the sons of Bashan (or fruitfulness) and goats with the fat of kidneys, of wheat; and thou didst drink the blood of the grape, pure wine.
15. But Jeshurun (the upright one) waxed fat and kicked; (thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou hast covered thyself) and forsook the God who made him and lightly esteemed the strong One of his saving health.
16. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.