Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation No! Instead, we should ask God for his help and wait patiently for him to rescue us. If he wants to, he will answer our cry for help. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Let us ask the Lord with tears, that according to his will so he would shew his mercy to us: that as our heart is troubled by their pride, so also we may glorify in our humility. Judith 8:15For God will not threaten like man, nor be inflamed to anger like the son of man. Judith 8:16 And therefore let us humble our souls before him, and continuing in an humble spirit, in his service: Judith 8:18 For we have not followed the sins of our fathers, who forsook their God, and worshipped strange gods. Judith 8:19 For which crime they were given up to their enemies, to the sword, and to pillage, and to confusion: but we know no other God but him. Context Judith 8…16And therefore let us humble our souls before him, and continuing in an humble spirit, in his service: 17Let us ask the Lord with tears, that according to his will so he would shew his mercy to us: that as our heart is troubled by their pride, so also we may glorify in our humility. 18For we have not followed the sins of our fathers, who forsook their God, and worshipped strange gods.… Cross References Judith 8:15 For God will not threaten like man, nor be inflamed to anger like the son of man. Judith 8:16 And therefore let us humble our souls before him, and continuing in an humble spirit, in his service: Judith 8:18 For we have not followed the sins of our fathers, who forsook their God, and worshipped strange gods. Judith 8:19 For which crime they were given up to their enemies, to the sword, and to pillage, and to confusion: but we know no other God but him. |