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Uzziah sent messengers to Betomasthaim, Bebai, Choba, Kola, throughout the whole territory of Israel, to inform them of what had happened and to urge them all to hurl themselves on the enemy and annihilate them. (Judith 15, 4)
Joakim the high priest and the entire Council of Elders of Israel, who were in Jerusalem, came to gaze on the benefits that the Lord had lavished on Israel and to see Judith and congratulate her. (Judith 15, 8)
On coming to her house, they blessed her with one accord, saying: You are the glory of Jerusalem! You are the great pride of Israel! You are the highest honour of our race! (Judith 15, 9)
By doing all this with your own hand you have deserved well of Israel, and God has approved what you have done. May you be blessed by the Lord Almighty in all the days to come! And the people all said, 'Amen!' (Judith 15, 10)
All the women of Israel, hurrying to see her, formed choirs of dancers in her honour. Judith took wands of vine-leaves in her hand and distributed them to the women who accompanied her; (Judith 15, 12)
she and her companions put on wreaths of olive. Then she took her place at the head of the procession and led the women as they danced. All the men of Israel, armed and garlanded, followed them, singing hymns. (Judith 15, 13)
With all Israel round her, Judith broke into this song of thanksgiving and the whole people sang this hymn: (Judith 15, 14)
She laid aside her widow's dress to raise up those who were oppressed in Israel; she anointed her face with perfume, (Judith 16, 7)
The House of Israel mourned her for seven days. Before her death she had distributed her property among her own relations and those of her husband Manasseh. (Judith 16, 24)
When a country falls into the power of the wicked, he veils the faces of its judges. Or if not he, who else? (Job 9, 24)
He robs a country's counsellors of their wits, turns judges into fools. (Job 12, 17)
(Yahweh judges the nations.) Judge me, Yahweh, as my uprightness and my integrity deserve. (Psalms 7, 8)
