TSK · Nehemiah 9:27

But if you seek the LORD your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.

The LORD was furious with Israel and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. He turned them over to their enemies who lived around them. They could no longer withstand their enemies’ attacks.

When the LORD raised up leaders for them, the LORD was with each leader and delivered the people from their enemies while the leader remained alive. The LORD felt sorry for them when they cried out in agony because of what their harsh oppressors did to them.

Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help.

Then they cried out to the LORD and admitted,‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’

The LORD had not decreed that he would blot out Israel’s memory from under heaven, so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.

Instead you must worship the LORD your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.”

He handed them over to the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

We have not obeyed the LORD our God by living according to his laws that he set before us through his servants the prophets.