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Your servant is a devout woman; she honours the God of heaven day and night. I therefore propose, my lord, to stay with you. I, your servant, shall go out every night into the valley and pray to God to let me know when they have committed their sin. (Judith 11, 17)
Holofernes said, 'God has done well to send you ahead of the others. Strength will be ours, and ruin theirs who have insulted my lord. (Judith 11, 22)
'May your soul live, my lord,' Judith answered, 'the Lord will have used me to accomplish his plan, before your servant has finished these provisions.' (Judith 12, 4)
She had already sent this request to Holofernes, 'Let my lord kindly give orders for your servant to be allowed to go out and pray,' (Judith 12, 6)
As she went she prayed to the Lord God of Israel to guide her in her plan to relieve the children of her people. (Judith 12, 8)
Bagoas then left Holofernes and went to see Judith. 'Would this young and lovely woman condescend to come to my lord?' he asked. 'She will occupy the seat of honour opposite him, drink the joyful wine with us and be treated today like one of the Assyrian ladies who stand in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar.' (Judith 12, 13)
'Who am I', Judith replied, 'to resist my lord? I shall not hesitate to do whatever he wishes, and doing this will be my joy to my dying day.' (Judith 12, 14)
'I am delighted to do so, my lord, for since my birth I have never felt my life more worthwhile than today.' (Judith 12, 18)
It grew late and his staff hurried away. Bagoas closed the tent from the outside, having shown out those who still lingered in his lord's presence. They went to their beds wearied with too much drinking, (Judith 13, 1)
By now everyone had left Holofernes, and no one, either important or unimportant, was left in the bedroom. Standing beside the bed, Judith murmured to herself: Lord God, to whom all strength belongs, prosper what my hands are now to do for the greater glory of Jerusalem; (Judith 13, 4)
coming closer to the bed she caught him by the hair and said, 'Make me strong today, Lord God of Israel!' (Judith 13, 7)
From a distance, Judith shouted to the guards on the gates, 'Open the gate! Open! For the Lord our God is with us still, displaying his strength in Israel and his might against our enemies, as he has done today!' (Judith 13, 11)
