¹¹ “^(A)I regret that I have made Saul king, because ^(B)he has turned back from ^[a]following Me and has not carried out My commands.” And Samuel was furious and ^(C)cried out to the Lord all night.

¹⁰ Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in ^(A)deception,” declares the Lord.

God Invites Repentance

¹¹ And the Lord said to me, “^(B)Faithless Israel has proved herself to be more righteous than treacherous Judah.

¹⁸ “Instead, I said to their ^[a](A)children in the wilderness, ‘^(B)Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.