Listen carefully to my words; let your ears be attentive to my explanation.

“Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.

Pay attention and listen to my message! Be attentive and listen to what I have to say!

“Assemble and listen, you sons of Jacob; listen to Israel, your father.

Foreigners are powerless before me; when they hear of my exploits, they submit to me.

Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth.

It is better for a person to receive a rebuke from those who are wise than to listen to the song of fools.

He wept loudly; the Egyptians heard it and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

I said, ‘Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me!

Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.

You have heard; now look at all the evidence! Will you not admit that what I say is true? From this point on I am announcing to you new events that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about.

“‘It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the Lord Lord who rules over all had said.

When Moses heard this explanation, he was satisfied.

When Moses heard it he fell down with his face to the ground.

Listen, Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!

“Listen now to my argument, and be attentive to my lips’ contentions.

Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

“I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,

“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!