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without anyone finding a word to say against her, so devoutly did she fear God. (Judith 8, 8)
When these came in she said: 'Listen to me, leaders of the people of Bethulia. You were wrong to speak to the people as you did today and to bind yourself by oath, in defiance of God, to surrender the town to our enemies if the Lord did not come to your help within a set number of days. (Judith 8, 11)
Who are you, to put God to the test today, you, of all people, to set yourselves above him? (Judith 8, 12)
If you cannot sound the depths of the human heart or unravel the arguments of the human mind, how can you fathom the God who made all things, or sound his mind or unravel his purposes? No, brothers, do not provoke the anger of the Lord our God. (Judith 8, 14)
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)
'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)
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)
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)
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)
Judith threw herself face to the ground, scattered ashes on her head, undressed as far as the sackcloth she was wearing and cried loudly to the Lord. At the same time in Jerusalem the evening incense was being offered in the Temple of God. Judith said: (Judith 9, 1)
Lord, God of my ancestor Simeon, you armed him with a sword to take vengeance on the foreigners who had undone a virgin's belt to her shame, laid bare her thigh to her confusion, violated her womb to her dishonour, since, though you said, 'This must not be,' they did it. (Judith 9, 2)
