Refrain:
AllThe word is very near to
you;
it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to observe.
1Give ear, O heavens,
and I will speak; ♦
and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2May my teaching drop
as the rain,
my speech distil as the dew, ♦
as the gentle rain on the grass,
and as the showers upon the meadow.
3For I will proclaim
the name of the Lord. ♦
Ascribe greatness to our God!
4The Rock, his work is
perfect; for all his ways are just: ♦
a faithful God without deceit, just and upright is he.
5His degenerate children
have dealt corruptly with him; ♦
a perverse and crooked generation.
6Do you thus repay the
Lord, you foolish and senseless people? ♦
Is not he your father, who created you,
who made you and established you?
7Remember the days of
old, consider the years long past; ♦
ask your father, and he will show you;
your elders, and they will tell you.
8When the Most High gave
the nations their inheritance,
when he divided the children of earth, ♦
he fixed the bounds of the peoples
according to the number of the children of God.
9For the Lord’s own portion
is his people, ♦
Jacob his allotted heritage.
10He sustained him in
a desert land,
in the howling waste of the wilderness; ♦
he shielded him and cared for him;
he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11As an eagle stirs up
its nest, and hovers over its young, ♦
spreading out its wings, takes them,
and bears them aloft on its pinions,
12So the Lord alone did
guide him, ♦
and no foreign god was with him.
Deuteronomy 32.1-12
AllGlory to the Father and
to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning is now
and shall be for ever. Amen.
AllThe word is very near to
you;
it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to observe.