Judith 4:10
Good News Translation
They put on sackcloth--they and their wives, their children, their livestock, and every resident foreigner, every slave and hired laborer.

New Revised Standard Version
They and their wives and their children and their cattle and every resident alien and hired laborer and purchased slave—they all put sackcloth around their waists.

Contemporary English Version
Then everyone in the country wrapped sackcloth around their waists--men, women, and children, as well as foreigners and slaves and hired workers. They even put sackcloth on their livestock!

New American Bible
All the men of Israel cried to God with great fervor and humbled themselves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they cried to the Lord the God of Israel with one accord, that their children might not be made a prey, and their wives carried off, and their cities destroyed, and their holy things profaned, and that they might not be made a reproach to the Gentiles.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they cried to the Lord the God of Israel with one accord, that their children might not be made a prey, and their wives carried off, and their cities destroyed, and their holy things profaned, and that they might not be made a reproach to the Gentiles.

Judith 4:8
And all the people cried to the Lord with great earnestness, and they humbled their souls in fastings, and prayers, both they and their wives.

Judith 4:9
And the priests put on haircloths, and they caused the little children to lie prostrate before the temple of the Lord, and the altar of the Lord they covered with haircloth.

Judith 4:11
Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord went about all Israel and spoke to them,

Judith 4:12
Saying: Know ye that the Lord will hear your prayers, if you continue with perseverance in fastings and prayers in the sight of the Lord.

Context
Judith 4
9And the priests put on haircloths, and they caused the little children to lie prostrate before the temple of the Lord, and the altar of the Lord they covered with haircloth. 10And they cried to the Lord the God of Israel with one accord, that their children might not be made a prey, and their wives carried off, and their cities destroyed, and their holy things profaned, and that they might not be made a reproach to the Gentiles. 11Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord went about all Israel and spoke to them,…
Cross References
Judith 4:8
And all the people cried to the Lord with great earnestness, and they humbled their souls in fastings, and prayers, both they and their wives.

Judith 4:9
And the priests put on haircloths, and they caused the little children to lie prostrate before the temple of the Lord, and the altar of the Lord they covered with haircloth.

Judith 4:11
Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord went about all Israel and spoke to them,

Judith 4:12
Saying: Know ye that the Lord will hear your prayers, if you continue with perseverance in fastings and prayers in the sight of the Lord.



(J Ju Jud Jdth)

Judith 4:9
Top of Page
Top of Page