⁸Hear, O my people, while I admonish you;
   O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
⁹There shall be no strange god among you;
   you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
¹⁰I am the Lord your God,
   who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
   Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

¹¹‘But my people did not listen to my voice;
   Israel would not submit to me.
¹²So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
   to follow their own counsels.
¹³O that my people would listen to me,
   that Israel would walk in my ways!
¹⁴Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,
   and turn my hand against their foes.