^11 (A)“I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has ^(B)turned back from following Me, ^(C)and has not performed My commandments.” And it ^(D)grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.

¹⁰ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me ^(A)with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.

¹¹ Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)“Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

¹⁸ “But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.