God's Warning To America

Here, all who live in America

I warn you--

If you would but listen to me, O America!

You shall have no foreign god among you;

You shall not bow down to an alien god.

Out of your ignorance and rebelliousness,

You have created innumerable gods for yourselves;

Your idols of persons of various sorts, money, prestige,

And power in your pitiful world.

I am the Lord your God,

Who brought you up out of Egypt

(out of the gripe of oppression

that was your previous circumstance)

Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

(with my Word and My LIFE)

But America would not listen to me;

America would not submit to me.

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts

To follow their own devices.

If America would have listened to me,

If America would follow my ways,

How quickly would I subdue their enemies

And turn my hand against their foes!

Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him,

And their punishment would last forever.

But America would be fed with the finest of wheat;

With honey from the rock

(which is Christ Jesus and His blessings)

I would satisfy you.

[Extrapolated from Psalm 81, versus 8-16]