They mock Israel's God. That is the way it is with the Christian church in many places. First, we pray for a desolate church by beginning where Daniel began. We go to the books. The books are the prophet Jeremiah and other Biblical books.
Prayer begins with the Bible.
George Mueller said that for years he tried to pray without starting in the Bible in the morning. And inevitably his mind wandered. Then he started with the Book, and turned the Book into prayer as he read, and for 40 years he was able to stay focussed and powerful in prayer. Without the Bible in our prayers, they will be just as worldly as the church we are trying to free from worldliness. Daniel's prayer begins with the Bible and it is saturated with the Bible.