The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.
"We have sinned"  (Judges 10:10,15).  "The penitential confession of Israel's sins undoubtedly had its setting in a fast called together by their leaders."[15]  If this was the case, there was probably a prophet who, upon behalf of Jehovah, spoke the stern words of  Judges 10:13,14.