¹¹ “^(A)I regret that I have made Saul king, for ^(B)he has turned back from ^[a]following Me and has not established My words.” And Samuel became angry and ^(C)cried out to Yahweh all night.

¹⁰ Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in ^(A)lying,” declares Yahweh.

¹¹ And Yahweh said to me, “^(B)Faithless Israel has proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

¹⁸ “I said to their ^[a](A)children in the wilderness, ‘^(B)Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers and do not keep their judgments and do not defile yourselves with their idols.