Judith 4:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ 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.

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord went about all Israel and spoke to them,