Judges 21:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

21 Now the children of Israel had also sworn in Maspha, saying: None of us shall give of his daughters to the children of Benjamin to wife.

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?