15
For if he will not help us within these five days, he hath power to defend us when he will, even every day, or to destroy us before our enemies.
16
Do not bind the counsels of the Lord our God: for God is not as man, that he may be threatened; neither is he as the son of man, that he should be wavering.
17
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.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.