Deuteronomy 32:1-9 ▼

1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

2 May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew; like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth.

3 For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God!

4 The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he;

5 yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him, a perverse and crooked generation.

6 Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?

7 Remember the days of old, consider the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you; your elders, and they will tell you.

8 When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;

9 the LORD’s own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.