9 Hear, O my people, and I will assure thee, O Israel: if thou
wilt hearken unto me,
10 There shall no strange god be in thee: neither shalt thou
worship any other god.
11 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of
Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I shall fill it.
12 But my people would not hear my voice: and Israel would not
obey me.
13 So I gave them up unto their own hearts* lusts: and let them
follow their own imaginations.
14 O that my people would have hearkened unto me: for if Israel
had walked in my ways,
15 I should soon have put down their enemies: and turned my hand
against their adversaries.
16 The haters of the Lord should have been found liars: but their
time should have endured for ever.
17 He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-flour: and
with honey out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee.