New Revised Standard Version
They even draped the altar with sackcloth and cried out in unison, praying fervently to the God of Israel not to allow their infants to be carried off and their wives to be taken as booty, and the towns they had inherited to be destroyed, and the sanctuary to be profaned and desecrated to the malicious joy of the Gentiles.

Contemporary English Version
and covered the altar with it. Then the men prayed aloud to the Lord their God, asking him not to let their wives and children be captured and taken away or to let their towns be destroyed. They begged him not to give foreigners the pleasure of taking over the temple and polluting the place of worship.

New American Bible
And all the Israelite men, women, and children who lived in Jerusalem fell prostrate in front of the temple and sprinkled ashes on their heads, spreading out their sackcloth before the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: Know ye that the Lord will hear your prayers, if you continue with perseverance in fastings and prayers in the sight of the Lord.

Saying: Know ye that the Lord will hear your prayers, if you continue with perseverance in fastings and prayers in the sight of the Lord.

Judith 4:10
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.

Judith 4:11
Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord went about all Israel and spoke to them,

Judith 4:13
Remember Moses the servant of the Lord overcame Amalec that trusted in his own strength, and in his power, and in his army, and in his shields, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen, not by fighting with the sword, but by holy prayers:

Judith 4:14
So all the enemies of Israel be, if you persevere in this work which you have begun.