8. O thou, my people, give an ear,I'll testify to thee;To thee, O Isr'el, if thou wiltbut hearken unto me.
9. In midst of thee there shall not beany strange god at all;Nor unto any god unknownthou bowing down shalt fall.
10. I am the Lord thy God, which didfrom Egypt land thee guide;I'll fill thy mouth abundantly,do thou it open wide.
11. But yet my people to my voicewould not attentive be;And ev'n my chosen Israelhe would have none of me.
12. So to the lust of their own heartsI them delivered;And then in counsels of their ownthey vainly wandered.
13. O that my people had me heard,Isr'el my ways had chose!
14. I had their en'mies soon subdu'd,my hand turn'd on their foes.
15. The haters of the Lord to himsubmission should have feign'd;But as for them, their time should havefor evermore remain'd.
16. He should have also fed them withthe finest of the wheat;Of honey from the rock thy fillI should have made thee eat.