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.