Psalm 81:6–16

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