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.