12 Therefore the people of Israel ^ccannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction.¹ I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

13 Get up! Consecrate the people and say, ^d‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.”

14 So the ^sanger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to ^tplunderers, who plundered them. And he ^usold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that ^vthey could no longer withstand their enemies.