1. "Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2. "Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As the droplets on the fresh grass And as the showers on the herb.
3. "For I proclaim the name of the Lord; Ascribe greatness to our God!
4. "The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He.
5. "They have acted corruptly toward Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation.
6. "Do you thus repay the Lord, O foolish and unwise people? Is not He your Father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
7. "Remember the days of old, Consider the years of all generations. Ask your father, and he will inform 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 peoples According to the number of the sons 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 land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
11. "Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, That hovers over its young, He spread His wings and caught them, He carried them on His pinions.