17. Wherefore let us wait for the salvation that comes from him, and call upon him to help us, and he will hear our voice, if it please him.
18. For there arose none in our age, neither is there any of us today, tribe, or kindred, or family, or city, which worship gods made with hands, as it was in the former days;
19. for the which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for a spoil, and fell with a great fall before our enemies.