Deuteronomy 32:1–10
32 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
a perverse and crooked generation.
O foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father, who created you,
who made you and established you?
consider the years long past;
ask your father, and he will inform you;
your elders, and they will tell you.
8 When the Most Highb apportioned the nations,
when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the gods;c
9 the Lord’s own portion was his people,
Jacob his allotted share.
10 He sustainedd him in a desert land,
in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
guarded him as the apple of his eye.