7. And the Lord, becoming angry against them, delivered them into the hands of the Philistines and the sons of Ammon.
8. And they were afflicted and vehemently oppressed for eighteen years, all who were living beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorite, which is in Gilead,
9. to such a great extent that the sons of Ammon, crossing over the Jordan, laid waste to Judah and Benjamin and Ephraim. And Israel was exceedingly afflicted.
10. And crying out to the Lord, they said: "We have sinned against you. For we have forsaken the Lord our God, and we have served the Baals."
11. And the Lord said to them: "Did not the Egyptians, and the Amorites, and the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines,
12. and also the Sidonians, and Amalek, and Canaan, oppress you, and so you cried out to me, and I rescued you from their hand?
13. And yet you have forsaken me, and you have worshipped foreign gods. For this reason, I will not continue to free you any more.
14. Go, and call upon the gods whom you have chosen. Let them free you in the time of anguish."
15. And the sons of Israel said to the Lord: "We have sinned. You may repay us in whatever way pleases you. Yet free us now."
16. And saying these things, they cast out all the idols of the foreign gods from their regions, and they served the Lord God. And he was touched by their miseries.
17. And then the sons of Ammon, shouting out together, pitched their tents in Gilead. And the sons of Israel gathered together against them, and they made camp at Mizpah.