Judges 2:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this?

³ Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face: that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin.

⁴ And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, they lifted up their voice, and wept.