Many times he delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin.
Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,
they aroused the Lord’s anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
because they rebelled against God’s commands and despised the plans of the Most High.
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands?
God chose new leaders when war came to the city gates, but not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.
They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it.
Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help.
Not a blacksmith could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!”