Catholic Public Domain Version
"“Why, O Lord, God of Israel, has this evil happened among your people, so that this day one tribe would be taken away from us?” "
— Judges 21:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?”
“And they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel? ”
“They said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?"”
“They said,“Why, O LORD God of Israel, has this happened in Israel?” An entire tribe has disappeared from Israel today!””
“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?”
“And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel?”
“And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?”
The sons of Israel had also taken an oath at Mizpah, and they said, “None of us shall give his daughters as a wife to the sons of Benjamin.”
And they all went to the house of God at Shiloh. And sitting in his sight until evening, they lifted up their voice, and they began to weep, with a great wailing, saying,
“Why, O Lord, God of Israel, has this evil happened among your people, so that this day one tribe would be taken away from us?”
Then, rising at first light on the next day, they built an altar. And they offered holocausts and victims of peace offerings there, and they said,
“Who, out of all the tribes of Israel, did not ascend with the army of the Lord?” For they had bound themselves with a great oath, when they were at Mizpah, that whoever was not present would be slain.
And the sons of Israel, having been led to repentance over their brother Benjamin, began to say: “One tribe has been taken away from Israel.