Judges 10:6–16

⁶And again, the Israelites^a did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. They served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites^b and Philistines; they abandoned Yahweh and did not serve him. ⁷And the anger of Yahweh burned^c against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and the Ammonites.^{d 8}They crushed and oppressed the Israelites^e in that year; for eighteen years they crushed all the Israelites^f who were beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorites,^g which is in Gilead. ⁹The Ammonites^h crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was very distressed.

¹⁰Then the Israelitesⁱ cried out to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you; we have abandoned our God and served the Baals.” ¹¹And Yahweh said to the Israelites,^j “Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians,^k the Amorites,^l from the Ammonites,^m and from the Philistines?^{n 12}And when the Sidonians, the Amalekites,^o and the Maonites^p oppressed you, you cried out to me, and I delivered you from their hand. ¹³Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you. ¹⁴Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your trouble.” ¹⁵And the Israelites^q said to Yahweh, “We have sinned; do to us accordingly as you see fit;^r only please deliver us this day.” ¹⁶So they removed the foreign gods from their midst and served Yahweh; and he could no longer bear^s the misery of Israel.