Judges 2:18-20

¹⁸And when the Lord raised up judges in their days, he was bowed by mercy, and he heard the wailings of them that were tormented, and he delivered them from the slaying of their destroyers.

¹⁹Soothly after that the judge was dead, they turned again, and did many things greater in evil than their fathers did; and they pursue or following alien gods, and served them, and worshipped them; they left not their own findings, and the hardest way by which they were wont to go.

²⁰And the strong vengeance of the Lord was wroth against Israel, and he said, For this people hath made void my covenant which I covenanted with their fathers, and have despised to hear my voice;