Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague broke in on them.
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried to the LORD.
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: