If integrated into the book of Daniel: 13.35.
And she, weeping, looked up toward heaven: Susanna is presumably standing as she is accused. When she looked up toward heaven, she was doing just what the narrator has told us the elders did not do. See verse 9 and the comments there. New Revised Standard Version has a nice touch here with “Through her tears she looked up toward Heaven.” But we may also translate “As she wept, she looked up….”
Her heart trusted in the Lord, which is to say, “she trusted the Lord” (Good News Translation). New Jerusalem Bible reads “her heart confident in God.” In some languages it will be necessary to state why she trusted; for example, “Susanna trusted the Lord to rescue her” (Contemporary English Version).
Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on The Shorter Books of the Deuterocanon. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2006. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.
