1. “Listen, O heavens, and I will speak!Hear, O earth, the words that I say!
2. Let my teaching fall on you like rain;let my speech settle like dew.Let my words fall like rain on tender grass,like gentle showers on young plants.
3. I will proclaim the name of the lord;how glorious is our God!
4. He is the Rock; his deeds are perfect.Everything he does is just and fair.He is a faithful God who does no wrong;how just and upright he is!
5. “But they have acted corruptly toward him;when they act so perversely,are they really his children?They are a deceitful and twisted generation.
6. Is this the way you repay the lord,you foolish and senseless people?Isn’t he your Father who created you?Has he not made you and established you?
7. Remember the days of long ago;think about the generations past.Ask your father, and he will inform you.Inquire of your elders, and they will tell you.
8. When the Most High assigned lands to the nations,when he divided up the human race,he established the boundaries of the peoplesaccording to the number in his heavenly court.
9. “For the people of Israel belong to the lord;Jacob is his special possession.