Judith 7:28-30

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁸ We call to witness against you heaven and earth and our God, the Lord of our ancestors, who punishes us for our sins and the sins of our ancestors; do today the things that we have described!’

²⁹ Then great and general lamentation arose throughout the assembly, and they cried out to the Lord God with a loud voice. ³⁰ But Uzziah said to them, ‘Courage, my brothers and sisters!^[a] Let us hold out for five days more; by that time the Lord our God will turn his mercy to us again, for he will not forsake us utterly.