Judges 21:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² And they all came to the house of God in Silo, and abiding before him till the evening, lifted up their voices, and began to lament and weep, saying:

³ O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy people, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us?

⁴ And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said: