7In your suffering you cried out to me, and I saved you. I answered you from the thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8My people, listen to my warnings! Israel, please listen to me!
9There must not be a strange god among you; you must never bow down to foreign gods and worship them.
10I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
11But my people didn't listen to me. Israel didn't want anything to do with me.
12So I sent them away to follow their stubborn thinking, living as they chose.