4. For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;
5. He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew not.
6. I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
7. 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.
8. Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
9. There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god
10. I am Jehovah thy God that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11. But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.
12. So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
13. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!