Why have you refused to help us? Why do you keep your hands behind you?
Wake up, Lord! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself! Don't reject us forever!
Lord, are you unmoved by all this? Are you going to do nothing and make us suffer more than we can endure?
In his fury he shattered the strength of Israel; He refused to help us when the enemy came. He raged against us like fire, destroying everything.
When the survivors came back to camp, the leaders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord let the Philistines defeat us today? Let's go and bring the Lord's Covenant Box from Shiloh, so that he will go with us and save us from our enemies.”