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And all the men and women of Israel, and their children, living at Jerusalem, prostrated themselves before the temple and put ashes on their heads and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord. (Judith 4, 11)
They even surrounded the altar with sackcloth and cried out in unison, praying earnestly to the God of Israel not to give up their infants as prey and their wives as booty, and the cities they had inherited to be destroyed, and the sanctuary to be profaned and desecrated to the malicious joy of the Gentiles. (Judith 4, 12)
So the Lord heard their prayers and looked upon their affliction; for the people fasted many days throughout Judea and in Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty. (Judith 4, 13)
And Joakim the high priest and all the priests who stood before the Lord and ministered to the Lord, with their loins girded with sackcloth, offered the continual burnt offerings and the vows and freewill offerings of the people. (Judith 4, 14)
With ashes upon their turbans, they cried out to the Lord with all their might to look with favor upon the whole house of Israel. (Judith 4, 15)
When Holofernes, the general of the Assyrian army, heard that the people of Israel had prepared for war and had closed the passes in the hills and fortified all the high hilltops and set up barricades in the plains, (Judith 5, 1)
and said to them, "Tell me, you Canaanites, what people is this that lives in the hill country? What cities do they inhabit? How large is their army, and in what does their power or strength consist? Who rules over them as king, leading their army? (Judith 5, 3)
Then Achior, the leader of all the Ammonites, said to him, "Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth about this people that dwells in the nearby mountain district. No falsehood shall come from your servant's mouth. (Judith 5, 5)
This people is descended from the Chaldeans. (Judith 5, 6)
and he led them by the way of Sinai and Kadesh-barnea, and drove out all the people of the wilderness. (Judith 5, 14)
Now therefore, my master and lord, if there is any unwitting error in this people and they sin against their God and we find out their offense, then we will go up and defeat them. (Judith 5, 20)
"For," they said, "we will not be afraid of the Israelites; they are a people with no strength or power for making war. (Judith 5, 23)
