‘I had done nothing wrong against your ancestors,
    but they turned away from me.
Instead, they worshipped useless idols.
    So they themselves became useless.
⁶ They did not think to themselves,
    “Where is the Lord?
    We should ask him to help us.
He brought us safely out of Egypt.
    He led us through the wilderness.
It was a place with dry sand and deep holes.
    There was no water there and it was dangerous.
Nobody lives in that desert,
    and nobody even travels through it.”