Psalm 81  New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

I hear a voice I had not known:^(C)
6 “I relieved your^[b] shoulder of the burden;
    your^[c] hands were freed from the basket.^(D)
7 In distress you called, and I rescued you;
    I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
    I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah^(E)
8 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you;
    O Israel, if you would but listen to me!^(F)
9 There shall be no strange god among you;
    you shall not bow down to a foreign god.^(G)
10 I am the Lord your God,
    who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
    Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.^(H)

¹¹ “But my people did not listen to my voice;
    Israel would not submit to me.^(I)
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
    to follow their own counsels.^(J)
13 O that my people would listen to me,
    that Israel would walk in my ways!^(K)
14 Then I would quickly subdue their enemies
    and turn my hand against their foes.^(L)
15 Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him,
    and their doom would last forever.
¹⁶ I would feed you^[d] with the finest of the wheat,
    and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”^(M)