Judith, 9

1. And when they were gone, Judith entered her place of prayer. And clothing herself with haircloth, she placed ashes on her head. And prostrating herself to the Lord, she cried out to the Lord, saying:

1. Tada Judita pade nièice, posu glavu pepelom i razotkri kostrijet koju je nosila na sebi. I upravo kad su u Jeruzalemu, u Domu Božjem, prinosili veèernji tamjan, ona glasno zavapi Gospodu i reèe:

2. “O Lord, God of my father Simeon, you gave him a sword to defend against foreigners, who stood out as violators by their defilement, and who uncovered the thigh of the virgin unto shame.

2. "O Gospode, Bože oca moga Šimuna, komu si ruku naoružao maèem da se osveti tuðincima koji bijahu radi sramote odriješili pas jedne djevice, obnažili njezin bok da je okaljaju i obešèastili njezinu utrobu za sramotu. Iako si kazao: 'Ne smije tako biti', oni su svejedno uèinili.

3. And you gave their wives into plunder, and their daughters into captivity, and all their spoils to be divided to the servants, who were zealous with your zeal. Bring help, I ask you, O Lord my God, to me, a widow.

3. I zato si predao pokolju voðe njihove i krvi postelju njihovu, prevarenu i postiðenu njihovom prijevarom. Udario si po robovima i gospodarima; po vladarima na prijestoljima njihovim.

4. For you have acted in the past, and you have decided one thing after another. And what you have willed, this too has happened.

4. Predao si žene njihove plijenu, a kæeri njihove, svu imovinu njihovu odredio da bude razdijeljena meðu tvoje ljubljene sinove koji su gorjeli od revnosti prema tebi, užasavali se nad obešèašæenjem svoje krvi i zvali te u pomoæ. O Bože, moj Bože, poslušaj i mene udovicu.

5. For all your ways have been prepared, and you have placed your judgments within your providence.

5. Ti si sazdao i ono što je bilo prije i što æe biti poslije. Ti si zamislio i sadašnjost i buduænost i sve se dogodilo što si umom zasnovao.

6. Look upon the camp of the Assyrians now, just as you deigned to look upon the camp of the Egyptians, when their weapons rushed after your servants, trusting in their four-horse chariots, and in their horsemen, and in a multitude of warriors.

6. Što si nakanio, došlo je preda te i reklo: 'Evo me!' Jer svi su tvoji putovi pripremljeni, a tvoje odluke predviðene.

7. But you gazed upon their camp, and darkness wearied them.

7. Eto, Asirci se uznose svojom vojskom, ponositi su na konje i konjanike svoje, oholi su zbog vrsnoæe pješaka svojih, uzdaju se u štit, koplje, luk, praæku i neæe da u tebi spoznaju Gospoda koji mrvi ratove.

8. The abyss took hold of their feet, and the waters covered them.

8. Gospod je tvoje ime. Ti im skrši snagu moæi svojom, savij silu gnjevom svojim. Jer su naumili da obešèaste tvoje Svetište, da okaljaju Šator gdje boravi preslavno Ime tvoje, da željezom raznesu uglove žrtvenika tvoga.

9. So may it be with these also, O Lord, who trust in their multitude, and in their swift chariots, and in their pikes, and in their shields, and in their arrows, and the glory in their lances.

9. Vidi njihovu nadutost i upravi gnjev svoj na glave njihove, a moju udovièku ruku ojaèaj za naumljeno djelo.

10. And they do not know that you are our God, who crushes wars from the beginning, and the Lord is your name.

10. Pogodi zamamnošæu mojih usana roba s voðom, a voðu s njegovim slugom. Razori drzovitost njihovu rukom jedne žene.

11. Raise up your arm, just as from the beginning, and throw down their power by your power. Let their power fall, in their anger, for they promise themselves to violate your sanctuary, and to pollute the tabernacle of your name, and to cut down by their sword the horn of your altar.

11. Tvoja snaga nije u mnoštvu niti moæ tvoja u silnicima, nego si ti Bog poniznih, pomoænik si malenih, potporanj slabih, utoèište napuštenih, spasitelj oèajnih.

12. Act, O Lord, so that his arrogance may be cut off with his own sword.

12. Doista, Bože oca moga, Bože baštine Izraelove, gospodaru neba i zemlje, tvorèe voda, kralju svega stvorenja, uslišaj molitvu moju!

13. Let him be seized by the snare of his own eyes in my regard, and may you strike him by the attraction of my lips.

13. Daj mi zamamnu rijeè koja ranjava i obara u krvi one koji su strahote smislili protiv tvoga Saveza, svetog Doma, brda Siona i kuæe sinova tvojih.

14. Give me constancy in my soul, so that I may hold him in contempt, and give me virtue, so that I may overthrow him.

14. Uèini da spozna sav narod tvoj i svako pleme da si ti Bog, Bog svake moæi i snage, i da osim tebe nema drugoga zaštitnika rodu Izraelovu!"

15. For this will be a memorial to your name, when he will be overthrown by the hand of a woman.

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16. For your power, O Lord, is not in numbers, nor is your will with the strength of horses, nor from the beginning have the arrogant been pleasing to you. But the pleas of the humble and the meek have always pleased you.

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17. O God of the heavens, Creator of the waters, and Lord of all creation, heed me, a miserable thing, pleading you and depending on your mercy.

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18. Remember, O Lord, your covenant, and put your words in my mouth, and reinforce the plan in my heart, so that your house may continue with your sanctification,

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19. and so that all the nations may acknowledge that you are God, and there is no other beside you.”

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