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.