14 know what goes on in a person's heart or learn what someone else is thinking. How do you expect to know what God is thinking or what he is planning? The only thing you're doing is making him angry.
15 Even if God does refuse to help us within the next five days, he still has the power to rescue us anytime he chooses. Or he may decide to let our enemies defeat us.
16 Don't put limits on what the Lord our God can do. God is not a mere human. He cannot be threatened or forced into doing something.
17 All we can do is pray for his help and wait for him to rescue us from our enemies. It is up to God to answer us when he chooses.
18 It's true that many of our ancestors worshiped gods made by human hands. Yet none of us alive today has ever sinned like that.
19 Enemies violently abused and killed our ancestors because they worshiped these gods.
20 But since we worship only the Lord God, I pray that he will not reject us or any of our people.