Judith 4:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ 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.

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.