Come children! Listen to me! I will teach you what it means to fear the Lord.

Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.

So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.

So now, sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak.

Listen, for I will speak excellent things, and my lips will utter what is right.

“So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

You who are far away, listen to what I have done! You who are close by, recognize my strength!”

So the Lord said, “Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.

Then I said to the people of Judah, “Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant! For the Lord has spoken.

Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

But if he should nullify them after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity.”

When the residents of Gibeon heard what Joshua did to Jericho and Ai,

Hear, O kings! Pay attention, O rulers! I will sing to the Lord! I will sing to the Lord God of Israel!

But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the Lord their God.

“But they – our ancestors – behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.

For the music director, a psalm by the Korahites. Listen to this, all you nations! Pay attention, all you inhabitants of the world!

Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! I will declare what he has done for me.

Let all the kings of the earth give thanks to you, O Lord, when they hear the words you speak.

Listen to the Lord’s word, you leaders of Sodom! Pay attention to our God’s rebuke, people of Gomorrah!