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1 “Listen, O heavens, and I will speak! Hear, O earth, the words that I say!
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Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.
2 Let my teaching fall on you like rain; let my speech settle like dew. Let my words fall like rain on tender grass, like gentle showers on young plants.
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Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.
3 I will proclaim the name of the LORD ; how glorious is our God!
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I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
4 He is the Rock; his deeds are perfect. Everything he does is just and fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is!
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He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
5 “But they have acted corruptly toward him; when they act so perversely, are they really his children? They are a deceitful and twisted generation.
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They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.
6 Is this the way you repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t he your Father who created you? Has he not made you and established you?
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Is this the way you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator,who made you and formed you?
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