Deuteronomy 32:1-9 ▼

1 “Listen, O heavens, to what I am saying. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

2 Let my doctrine accumulate like the rain. Let my eloquence form like the dew, like a mist upon the plants, and like water droplets upon the grass.

3 For I will invoke the name of the Lord. Acknowledge the magnificence of our God!

4 The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments. God is faithful and without any iniquity. He is just and upright.

5 They have sinned against him, and in their filth they are not his sons. They are a depraved and perverse generation.

6 How can this be the return you would offer to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is he himself not your Father, who has possessed you, and made you, and created you?

7 Remember the days of antiquity. Consider each generation. Question your father, and he will declare it to you. Question your elders, and they will tell it to you.

8 When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the limits of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

9 But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob, the lot of his inheritance.