12. saying: "Know that the Lord will heed your prayers, if you continue to persevere in fastings and prayers in the sight of the Lord.
13. Recall that Moses, the servant of the Lord, overcame Amalek, who trusted in his own strength, and in his power, and in his army, and in his bronze shields, and in his swift chariots, and in his horsemen. He overcame him, not by fighting with iron, but by pleading with holy prayers.
14. So will it be with all the enemies of Israel, if you persevere in this work that you have begun."
15. Therefore, by this exhortation and his prayer to the Lord, they continued in the sight of the Lord,
16. so that even those who offered holocausts to the Lord, offered the sacrifices to the Lord girded with haircloths, and there were ashes upon their heads.
17. And they all begged God with their whole heart, that he would visit his people Israel.