But after they had (f) rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest [them] from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;
(f) He declares how God's mercies always contended with the wickedness of the people, who always in their prosperity forgot God.