2My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:
3For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God be named great.
4He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
5They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.
6Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.
7Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.
8When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.
