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16 It is not your right to impose conditions on the Lord, our God.

“God is not like a human being, to be persuaded by threats,
    or like a mere mortal, to be won over by pleas.

17 “Therefore, while we await the deliverance that is his to give, let us call upon him to help us, and he will hear our cry if it pleases him. 18 For in recent times and even today there has not been a single tribe or clan or district or town of ours that worships gods made with human hands, as was the case in days gone by.

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