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Therefore let us wait for salvation of 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 now in these days neither tribe, nor family, nor people, nor city among us, which worship gods made with hands, as hath been aforetime.
19
For the which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for a spoil, and had a great fall before our enemies.
20
But we know none other god, therefore we trust that he will not dispise us, nor any of our nation.
21
For if we be taken so, all Judea shall lie waste, and our sanctuary shall be spoiled; and he will require the profanation thereof at our mouth.