Psalms 81:6-16

⁶I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

⁷Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

⁹There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

¹⁰I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.

¹²So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.

¹³Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!

¹⁴I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

¹⁵The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.

¹⁶And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.