So {the anger of Yahweh was kindled} against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of plunderers; and they plundered them, and he sold them into the hand of their enemies from all sides. They were unable to withstand their enemies any longer.

And {the anger of Yahweh was kindled} against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-Rishathaim, the king of Aram Naharaim; and the {Israelites} served Cushan-Rishathaim eight years.

Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemy, and they brought trouble to them. Then in the time of their trouble they cried out to you, and you heard from the heavens, and according to your great compassions, you gave them saviors, and you saved them from the hand of their enemies.

Insomuch

And you shall not follow the statutes of the nation that I am driving out {from before you}, because they did all these things, and I detested them.

Then Yahweh saw, and he spurned [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

And I got rid of three shepherds in one month, for {I grew impatient} with them, and {they also became tired of me}.

His own

Why, O God, have you rejected [us] forever? [Why] does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

For they [are] your people and your inheritance whom you brought with your great power and with your outstretched arm.'

The Lord has rejected his altar; he has rejected his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hands of the enemy the walls of its citadel fortresses. They have cried out in the house of Yahweh like a day of an appointed feast.

General references

Who gave Jacob to a plunderer and Israel to those who plunder? [Was it] not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned? And they were not willing to walk in his ways, and they would not {obey} his law.