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Judith 13:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" All the people were exceedingly amazed, and bowed themselves, and worshiped God, and said with one accord, “Blessed are you, O our God, who have this day humiliated the enemies of your people.” "

Judith 13:17

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15 Then she took the head out of the bag and showed it, and said to them, “Behold, the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, and behold, the canopy under which he laid in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him by the hand of a woman.

16 And as the Lord lives, who preserved me in my way that I went, my countenance deceived him to his destruction, and he didn’t commit sin with me, to defile and shame me.”

17 All the people were exceedingly amazed, and bowed themselves, and worshiped God, and said with one accord, “Blessed are you, O our God, who have this day humiliated the enemies of your people.”

18 Ozias said to her, “Blessed are you, daughter, in the sight of the Most High God, above all the women upon the earth; and blessed is the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who directed you to cut off the head of the prince of our enemies.

19 For your hope will not depart from the heart of men that remember the strength of God forever.

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Judith 13:1

"But when the evening had come, his servants hurried to depart. Bagoas shut the tent outside, and dismissed those who waited from the presence of his lord. They went away to their beds; for they were all weary, because the feast had been long."

Judith 13:2

"But Judith was left alone in the tent, with Holofernes lying along upon his bed; for he was drunk with wine."

Judith 13:3

"Judith had said to her servant that she should stand outside her bedchamber, and wait for her to come out, as she did daily; for she said she would go out to her prayer. She spoke to Bagoas according to the same words."

Judith 13:4

"All went away from her presence, and none was left in the bedchamber, small or great. Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look in this hour upon the works of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem."

Judith 13:5

"For now is the time to help your inheritance, and to do the thing that I have purposed to the destruction of the enemies which have risen up against us."

Judith 13:6

"She came to the bedpost which was at Holofernes’ head, and took down his sword from there."

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