¹⁶ Then Yahweh raised up leaders,^[a] and they delivered them from the hand of their plunderers. ¹⁷ But they did not listen to their leaders,^[b] but lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned away quickly from the way that their ancestors^[c] went, who had obeyed the commandment of Yahweh; they did not do as their ancestors. ¹⁸ And when Yahweh raised leaders^[d] for them, Yahweh was with the leader,^[e] and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the leader,^[f] for Yahweh was moved by their groaning because of their persecutors and oppressors.