Here, I. God shows how insufficient idols and creatures were to relieve and succour those that worshipped them and confided in them (Isa. 57:13): “ When thou criest in thy distress and anguish, lamentest thy misery and callest for help, let thy companies deliver thee , thy idol-gods which thou hast heaped to thyself companies of, the troops of the confederate forces which thou hast relied so much ...