1 `Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O  earth, sayings of my mouth!
         
                                
                        2 Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings;  As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,
         
                                
                        3 For the Name of Jehovah I proclaim, Ascribe ye greatness to  our God!
         
                                
                        4 The Rock! -- perfect [is] His work, For all His ways [are]  just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and  upright [is] He.
         
                                
                        5 It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His  sons`, A generation perverse and crooked!
         
                                
                        6 To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise?  Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth  establish thee.
         
                                
                        7 Remember days of old -- Understand the years of many  generations -- Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine  elders, and they say to thee: