Judith 9:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 You gave up their wives for plunder and their daughters to captivity and all their spoils to be divided among your beloved children who burned with zeal for you and abhorred the pollution of their blood and called on you for help. O God, my God, hear me also, a widow. More versionsCommon English Bible You handed over their women as booty and their daughters as prisoners. You gave all of their property to be divided up among your dearly loved children, who burned with holy zeal for you and hated the pollution of their blood, and called on you for help. God, my God, also hear me—a widow. Catholic Public Domain Version For you have acted in the past, and you have decided one thing after another. And what you have willed, this too has happened. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For thou hast done the things of old, and hast devised one thing after another: and what thou hast designed hath been done. Good News Translation (US Version) You let their wives be carried off, their daughters taken captive, and their possessions plundered by the Israelites, your chosen people, who were eager to do your will. Dinah's brothers were furious because of this disgrace to their family, so they called on you for help. “O my God, listen to my prayer, the prayer of a widow. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers and gave their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among your dear children; which were moved with zeal for you, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon you for aid. O God, O my God, hear me also who am a widow. Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition Their wives were raped, and their children were carried off to become slaves. Dinah's relatives were furious and were eager to take revenge on the foreigners who had disgraced their family, and so they called on you for help. That's why you let the Israelites carry off the wealth of those foreigners. Lord God, I am a widow. Please listen to my prayer. |