Deuteronomy 32:1-9 ▼

1 Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth!

2 May my teaching soak in like the rain, and my utterance drench like the dew, Like a downpour upon the grass, like a shower upon the crops.

3 For I will proclaim the name of the LORD, praise the greatness of our God!

4 The Rock—how faultless are his deeds, how right all his ways! A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he!

5 Yet his degenerate children have treated him basely, a twisted and crooked generation!

6 Is this how you repay the LORD, so foolish and unwise a people? Is he not your father who begot you, the one who made and established you?

7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of generations past. Ask your father, he will inform you, your elders, they will tell you:

8 When the Most High allotted each nation its heritage, when he separated out human beings, He set up the boundaries of the peoples after the number of the divine beings;

9 But the LORD’s portion was his people; his allotted share was Jacob.