5. When God went out against Egypt, he established it as a statute for Joseph. I heard an unknown voice say:
6. “I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
7. In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
8. Hear me, my people, and I will warn you— if you would only listen to me, Israel!
9. You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.
10. I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
11. “But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.
12. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.