Come children! Listen to me! I will teach you what it means to fear the Lord. ¹ 

Listen, children, ²  to a father’s instruction, ³  and pay attention so that ⁴  you may gain ⁵  discernment.

So now, children, ¹  listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak. ² 

So now, sons, ¹  listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak. ² 

Listen, for I will speak excellent things, ¹  and my lips will utter ²  what is right.

“So now, children, ¹  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, ¹  “Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people. ² 

Then I said to the people of Judah, ¹  “Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant! For the Lord has spoken.

Listen to this, you who trample ¹  the needy, and do away with ²  the destitute in the land.

But if he should nullify them after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity.” ¹ 

When the residents of Gibeon heard what Joshua did to Jericho ¹  and Ai,

Hear, O kings! Pay attention, O rulers! I will sing to the Lord! ¹  I will sing ²  to the Lord God of Israel!

But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, ¹  who had not trusted the Lord their God.

“But they – our ancestors ¹  – behaved presumptuously; they rebelled ²  and did not obey your commandments.

“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. ¹  Far be it from ²  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! ² 

Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! ¹  I will declare what he has done for me.

Let all the kings of the earth give thanks ¹  to you, O Lord, when they hear the words you speak. ² 

Listen to the Lord’s word, you leaders of Sodom! ¹  Pay attention to our God’s rebuke, ²  people of Gomorrah!