So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.

Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.

Insomuch

And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.

"The LORD saw it and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

His own

O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.'

The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the LORD as on the day of festival.

General references

Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?