30. she came with her parents, children and all her relatives.
31. Susanna, very delicate and beautiful,
32. was veiled; but those transgressors of the law ordered that she be exposed so as to sate themselves with her beauty.
33. All her companions and the onlookers were weeping.
34. In the midst of the people the two old men rose up and laid their hands on her head.
35. As she wept she looked up to heaven, for she trusted in the Lord wholeheartedly.
36. The old men said, “As we were walking in the garden alone, this woman entered with two servant girls, shut the garden gates and sent the servant girls away.
37. A young man, who was hidden there, came and lay with her.
38. When we, in a corner of the garden, saw this lawlessness, we ran toward them.
39. We saw them lying together, but the man we could not hold, because he was stronger than we; he opened the gates and ran off.
40. Then we seized this one and asked who the young man was,
41. but she refused to tell us. We testify to this.” The assembly believed them, since they were elders and judges of the people, and they condemned her to death.
42. But Susanna cried aloud: “Eternal God, you know what is hidden and are aware of all things before they come to be:
43. you know that they have testified falsely against me. Here I am about to die, though I have done none of the things for which these men have condemned me.”
44. The Lord heard her prayer.