God answered by listing past deliverances and saying Israel had forsaken him and served other gods (Judges 10:10–13). He said he would save them no more and told them to cry out to the gods they had chosen (Judges 10:13–14).
In Judges 10:10–12 Israel calls out to Yahweh and openly admits wrongdoing: they have abandoned their God and served the Baals. Yahweh answers by pointing backward, not forward. He reminds them of multiple earlier times he rescued them from powerful neighbors when they cried to him. These verses sit inside the recurring Judges pattern where Israel falls into trouble, cries out, and Yahweh responds (often by raising a deliverer). Here, the “cry” and confession appear, but Yahweh’s first response is a pointed reminder of history rather than immediate relief.
Judges 10:10–12 presents a frank confession followed by a history-based reply. Israel admits both “we have sinned” and the concrete shape of that sin: they abandoned “our God” and served “the Baals” (baals).
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Judges 10:10-13, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
10The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.
11Yahweh said to the children of Israel, Didn`t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
12The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
13Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: why I will save you no more.