Israel’s Unfaithfulness

¹¹ Then the children of Israel did ^(A)evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals; ¹² and they ^(B)forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed ^(C)other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they ^(D)bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger. ¹³ They forsook the Lord ^(E)and served ^[a]Baal and the ^[b]Ashtoreths. ^14 (F)And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He ^(G)delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and ^(H)He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they ^(I)could no longer stand before their enemies. ¹⁵ Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for calamity, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had ^(J)sworn to them. And they were greatly distressed.