23. Will any of you listen to this?From now on will you listen with care?
24. Who gave Israel up to the looters?It was the Lord himself, against whom we sinned!We would not live as he wanted us to liveor obey the teachings he gave us.
25. So he made us feel the force of his angerand suffer the violence of war.Like fire his anger burned throughout Israel,but we never knew what was happening;we learnt from it nothing at all.