29 Everyone then began crying loudly and praying to the Lord God.
30 But Uzziah said to them, “Be brave, my friends! Let's wait five more days to see if the Lord our God will have pity on us. I'm sure he won't let us die.
31 If he doesn't help us in five days, I will do what you have said.”
32 Uzziah then ordered the men to go back to their guard posts on the town walls and in the watchtowers, and he told the women and children to return home. Everyone in Bethulia was still very upset and hopeless.