Good News Translation
The leaders of Israel prayed earnestly to God and fasted.

New Revised Standard Version
And every man of Israel cried out to God with great fervor, and they humbled themselves with much fasting.

Contemporary English Version
All the men of Israel prayed sincerely and went without eating to show their sorrow.

New American Bible
The Israelites carried out the orders given them by Joakim, the high priest, and the senate of the whole people of Israel, in session in Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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.

Judith 4:7
And the children of Israel did as the priests of the Lord Eliachim had appointed them.

Judith 4:8
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.

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,