Shofetim 2:16-18

Orthodox Jewish Bible

¹⁶ Nevertheless Hashem raised up Shofetim, which saved them out of the yad of those that plundered them.

¹⁷ And yet they would not pay heed unto their Shofetim, but they went a-whoring after acharei elohim, and bowed themselves unto them; they turned quickly from HaDerech which their Avot walked in, the Way of obedience to the mitzvot Hashem; but they did not so.

¹⁸ And when Hashem raised them up Shofetim, then Hashem was with the Shofet, and saved them out of the yad of their enemies all the days of the Shofet; for it relented Hashem because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and afflicted them.