Judges 10:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And yet you have forsaken me, and have worshipped strange gods: therefore I will deliver you no more:
Douay-Rheims

וְאַתֶּם֙ עֲזַבְתֶּ֣ם אוֹתִ֔י וַתַּעַבְד֖וּ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֑ים לָכֵ֥ן לֹֽא־אוֹסִ֖יף לְהוֹשִׁ֥יעַ אֶתְכֶֽם׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Theodoret of Cyrus

5th centuryChurch Father

He warned that he would no longer show them any concern. He stated, "I will not exert myself to deliver you. Go and call upon the deities you have chosen for yourselves, and let them save you in your moment of distress" (Judges 10:13-14).

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Passages read together with this verse.

Jer 2:13For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Judg 2:12And they left the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the gods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them: and they provoked the Lord to anger,
1 Chr 28:9And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Deut 32:15The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
Jonah 2:8When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto the holy temple.