1. Hear, heavens, and I will speak. Listen, earth, to what I say.
2. My teaching will drop like rain;my words will fall like dew.They will be like showers on the grass;they will pour down like rain on young plants.
3. I will announce the name of the Lord.Praise God because he is great!
4. He is like a rock; what he does is perfect,and he is always fair.He is a faithful God who does no wrong,who is right and fair.
5. They have done evil against him.To their shame they are no longer his children;they are an evil and lying people.
6. This is not the way to repay the Lord,you foolish and unwise people.He is your Father and Maker,who made you and formed you.
7. Remember the old days.Think of the years already passed.Ask your father and he will tell you;ask your elders and they will inform you.
8. God Most High gave the nations their lands,dividing up the human race.He set up borders for the peopleand even numbered the Israelites.
9. The Lord took his people as his share,the people of Jacob as his very own.
10. He found them in a desert,a windy, empty land.He surrounded them and brought them up,guarding them as those he loved very much.
11. He was like an eagle building its nestthat flutters over its young.It spreads its wings to catch themand carries them on its feathers.
12. The Lord alone led them,and there was no foreign god helping him.
13. The Lord brought them to the heights of the landand fed them the fruit of the fields.He gave them honey from the rocks,bringing oil from the solid rock.