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• But you have no right to demand guarantees where the designs of the Lord our God are concerned. For God is not to be threatened as a human being is, nor is he, like a mere human, to be cajoled. (Judith 8, 16)

• Rather, as we wait patiently for him to save, let us plead with him to help us. He will hear our voice if such is his good pleasure. (Judith 8, 17)

• 'And indeed of recent times and still today there is not one tribe of ours, or family, or village, or town that has worshipped gods made by human hand, as once was done, (Judith 8, 18)

• which was the reason why our ancestors were delivered over to sword and sack, and perished in misery at the hands of our enemies. (Judith 8, 19)

• We for our part acknowledge no other God but him; and so we may hope he will not look on us disdainfully or desert our nation. (Judith 8, 20)

• 'If indeed they capture us, as you expect, then all Judaea will be captured too, and our holy places plundered, and we shall answer with our blood for their profanation. (Judith 8, 21)

• for our surrender will not reinstate us in their favour; no, the Lord our God will make it a thing to be ashamed of. (Judith 8, 23)

• 'All this being so, let us rather give thanks to the Lord our God who, as he tested our ancestors, is now testing us. (Judith 8, 25)

• Remember how he treated Abraham, all the ordeals of Isaac, all that happened to Jacob in Syrian Mesopotamia while he kept the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother. (Judith 8, 26)

• For as these ordeals were intended by him to search their hearts, so now this is not vengeance that God is exacting on us, but a warning inflicted by the Lord on those who are near his heart.' (Judith 8, 27)

• Uzziah replied, 'Everything you have just said comes from an honest heart and no one will contradict a word of it. (Judith 8, 28)

• But, parched with thirst, the people forced us to act as we had promised them and to bind ourselves by an inviolable oath. (Judith 8, 30)