1. “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak! Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2. May my teaching trickle like rain, my speech distill like dew— like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
3. For I will proclaim Adonai’s Name, ascribe greatness to our God!
4. The Rock—blameless is His work. Indeed, all His ways are just. God of faithfulness without iniquity, righteous and upright is He.
5. Did it corrupt Him? No! The blemish is His children’s— a generation crooked and twisted.
6. Is this how you pay back Adonai, O foolish, unwise people? Isn’t He your Father who ransomed you? He made you and established you.
7. “Remember the days of antiquity, understand the years across generations. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders and they will say to you.
8. When Elyon gave nations their heritage, when He separated the sons of man, He set boundaries for the people by the number of Bnei-Yisrael.
9. But Adonai’s portion is His people— Jacob is the share of His inheritance.
10. He found him in the wilderness land, in the void of a howling waste. He surrounded him, cared for him, guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
11. As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, He spreads His wings, catches him, lifts him up on His pinions.