Judges 2:2-4

Modern English Version

² but you must not make a pact with the inhabitants of this land, and you must tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done? ³ So now I say, ‘I will not drive them out before you. They will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’ ”

⁴ When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people raised their voices and wept aloud.