Second Canticle of Moses (Audite, Caeli, Saturday Lauds Canticle)

Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth. Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distill as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass. Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God. The works of God are perfect, and all His ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, He is just and right. Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee. The Lord's portion is His people: Jacob the lot of His inheritance. He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: He led him about, and taught him: and He kept him as the apple of His eye. As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, He spread His wings, and hath taken him and carried him on His shoulders. The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.