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Judith 14:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He cried with a loud voice, with weeping, groaning, and shouting, and tore his garments. "

Judith 14:16

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14 Bagoas went in, and knocked at the outer door of the tent; for he supposed that Holofernes was sleeping with Judith.

15 But when no one answered, he opened it, went into the bedchamber, and found him cast upon the threshold dead; and his head had been taken from him.

16 He cried with a loud voice, with weeping, groaning, and shouting, and tore his garments.

17 He entered into the tent where Judith lodged, and he didn’t find her. He leaped out to the people, and cried aloud,

18 “The slaves have dealt treacherously! One woman of the Hebrews has brought shame upon the house of King Nebuchadnezzar; for, behold, Holofernes lies upon the ground, and his head is not on him!”

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"When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky."

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"and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”"

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"He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices."

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Judith 14:1

"Judith said to them, “Hear me now, my kindred, and take this head, and hang it upon the battlement of your wall."

Judith 14:2

"It will be, so soon as the morning appears, and the sun comes up on the earth, you shall each take up his weapons of war, and every valiant man of you go out of the city. You shall set a captain over them, as though you would go down to the plain toward the watch of the children of Asshur; but you men shall not go down."

Judith 14:3

"These will take up their full armor, and shall go into their camp and rouse up the captains of the army of Asshur. They will run together to Holofernes’ tent. They won’t find him. Fear will fall upon them, and they will flee before your face."

Judith 14:4

"You men, and all that inhabit every border of Israel, shall pursue them and overthrow them as they go."

Judith 14:5

"But before you do these things, summon Achior the Ammonite to me, that he may see and know him that despised the house of Israel, and that sent him to us, as it were to death."

Judith 14:6

"And they called Achior out of the house of Ozias; but when he came, and saw the head of Holofernes in a man’s hand in the assembly of the people, he fell upon his face, and his spirit failed."

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