Deuteronomy 32:1-9 ▼

1 “Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And you hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!

2 My doctrine drops as rain; My sayings flow as dew; As storms on the tender grass, || And as showers on the herb,

3 For I proclaim the Name of YHWH; Ascribe greatness to our God!

4 The Rock—His work [is] perfect, || For all His ways [are] just; God of steadfastness, and without iniquity; Righteous and upright [is] He.

5 It has done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not of His sons, || A generation perverse and crooked!

6 Do you act thus to YHWH, || O people foolish and not wise? Is He not your Father—He who bought you? He made you, and establishes you.

7 Remember days of old—Understand the years of many generations—Ask your father, and he tells you; Your elderly, and they say to you:

8 In the Most High causing nations to inherit, || In His separating sons of Adam—He sets up the borders of the peoples || By the number of the sons of God [[or sons of Israel]].

9 For YHWH’s portion [is] His people, || Jacob [is] the line of His inheritance.