Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation The leaders of Israel prayed earnestly to God and fasted. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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 4:7And the children of Israel did as the priests of the Lord Eliachim had appointed them. 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 4:10 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 4:11 Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord went about all Israel and spoke to them, Context Judith 4…8And all the people cried to the Lord with great earnestness, and they humbled their souls in fastings, and prayers, both they and their wives. 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.… Cross References Judith 4:7 And the children of Israel did as the priests of the Lord Eliachim had appointed them. 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 4:10 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 4:11 Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord went about all Israel and spoke to them, |