Judges 10:14

14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!”

Judges 10:14 in Other Translations

14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

14 Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress."

14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen! Let them rescue you in your hour of distress!”

14 Go ahead! Cry out for help to the gods you've chosen - let them get you out of the mess you're in!"

14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your oppression."

Judges 10:14 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 10:14

Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen
For they were their choice, and not what they were obliged to serve through persecution, and by compulsion of others, and whom they needed not, having the Lord Jehovah to be their God; and they are bid not seriously, but in an ironical or sarcastic way, to call upon them for help in this their time of distress, in whose power it was not to relieve them:

let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation;
if they can, whom you have served in your prosperity.

Judges 10:14 In-Context

12 the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands?

13 But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.

14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!”

15 But the Israelites said to the LORD, “We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.”

16 Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the LORD. And he could bear Israel’s misery no longer.

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 44:17; Isaiah 57:13
• 2. Deuteronomy 32:37; Jeremiah 2:28; Jeremiah 11:12; Habakkuk 2:18