Thomson(i)
3 Thereupon Josaphat was terrified, and set his face to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast through all Juda
4 And when Juda was assembled to seek the Lord; when they were come out of all the cities of Juda to seek the Lord,
5 Josaphat stood up in the congregation of Juda, in Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, in front of the new court,
6 and said, O Lord the God of my fathers, art not thou God in heaven above? Thou indeed rulest over all the kingdoms of the nations: and in thy hand is the majesty of power; and there is none who can withstand thee.
7 Art not thou the Lord who destroyed the inhabitants of this land from before thy people Israel? Thou indeed didst give it to the seed of Abraham thy beloved, forever:
8 and they have settled therein, and built therein a sanctuary to thy name, saying,
9 If evils come upon us, the sword, judgment, pestilence or famine, we will stand before this house and before thee; for thy name is on this house; and cry to thee, because of the affliction, and thou wilt hear and save.
10 And now behold the Ammonites and the Moabites and mount Seir, through whose territories thou didst not permit Israel to pass, when they were coming out of the land of Egypt, for they turned from them and did not destroy them;
11 yet now behold they are attempting to come out against us, to drive us from this inheritance of ours which thou hast given us.
12 Lord our God, wilt thou not judge them? Because we have not power to withstand this great multitude which is coming against us, and do not know what to do with them, we can only have our eyes on thee.
13 And while all the chiefs of Juda were standing before the Lord, with their wives and children;