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The Apocrypha: The Lutheran Edition: Text is unavailable, but you can change that!

For more than one hundred years, the Apocrypha has been left out of English versions of the Bible. Described by Martin Luther as useful texts to read, but not divinely inspired, the Apocrypha allows Lutherans to look back at their heritage and see the Bible as our forefathers would have. Furthermore, the texts of the Apocrypha are essential reading for filling in the 400-year gap between the Old...

As long as they did not sin against their God they prospered, for the God who hates iniquity is with them. But when they departed from the way that he had appointed for them, they were utterly defeated in very many battles and were led away captive to a foreign country; the temple of their God was razed to the ground, and their cities were captured by their enemies.
Judith 5:17–18