Good News Translation
"If our town is taken by the enemy, the entire region of Judah will then fall, and our Temple in Jerusalem will be looted. And God will make us pay with our lives for allowing the Temple to be defiled.

New Revised Standard Version
For if we are captured, all Judea will be captured and our sanctuary will be plundered; and he will make us pay for its desecration with our blood.

Contemporary English Version
If our town is captured, then before long all of Judea will fall and our temple in Jerusalem will be in ruins. And if the temple becomes an unfit place for worship, God will make us pay with our lives.

New American Bible
If we are taken, then all Judea will fall, our sanctuary will be plundered, and God will demand an account from us for their profanation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of God, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your speech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they might be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly.

And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of God, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your speech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they might be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly.

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.

Judith 8:20
Let us humbly wait for his consolation, and the Lord our God will require our blood of the afflictions of our enemies, and he will humble all the nations that shall rise up against us, and bring them to disgrace.

Judith 8:22
They must remember how our father Abraham was tempted, and being proved by many tribulations, was made the friend of God.

Judith 8:23
So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that have pleased God, passed through many tribulations, remaining faithful.