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

My ¹ doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

He is the ¹ Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not ¹ made thee, and established thee?

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the ¹ people according to the number of the children of Israel.

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, ¹ fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

He made him ride on the high places of the ¹ earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck ² honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

¹ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

They provoked him to jealousy with ¹ strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to ¹ new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his ¹ sons, and of his daughters.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a ¹ people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

The sword ¹ without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should ¹ behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. ² Rejoicing to see the godly afflicted, and attributing to themselves that which is wrought by God's hand.

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would ¹ consider their latter end!

Their ¹ wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none ¹ shut up, or left.

For I ¹ lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the ¹ blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

For it is not a ¹ vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye ¹ sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.