it hath heard] By a figurative speech, sence is emphatically ascribed to a senselesse stone. So Deuteronomy 32:11. Psalms 19:1. and Isaiah 1:2. Jerem. 22. 29. As though he should say, this stone, when you see it, shall represent to your mindes and consciences, this covenant which you have made, as if it could both hear and speak. the words of the Lord] That is, the words of the covenant, which we have contracted with the land.