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Judith 7:28 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" We take to witness against you the sky and the earth, and our God and the Lord of our fathers, who punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers. Do what we have said today!” "

Judith 7:28

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26 And now summon them, and deliver up the whole city as prey to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army.

27 For it is better for us to be captured by them. For we will be servants, and our souls will live, and we will not see the death of our babies before our eyes, and our wives and our children fainting in death.

28 We take to witness against you the sky and the earth, and our God and the Lord of our fathers, who punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers. Do what we have said today!”

29 And there was great weeping of all with one consent in the midst of the assembly; and they cried to the Lord God with a loud voice.

30 And Ozias said to them, “Brethren, be of good courage! Let us endure five more days, during which the Lord our God will turn his mercy toward us; for he will not forsake us utterly.

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Judith 7:1

"The next day Holofernes commanded all his army and all the people who had come to be his allies, that they should move their camp toward Bethulia, seize the passes of the hill country, and make war against the children of Israel."

Judith 7:2

"Every mighty man of them moved that day. The army of their men of war was one hundred seventy thousand footmen, plus twelve thousand horsemen, besides the baggage and the men who were on foot among them—an exceedingly great multitude."

Judith 7:3

"They encamped in the valley near Bethulia, by the fountain. They spread themselves in breadth over Dothaim even to Belmaim, and in length from Bethulia to Cyamon, which is near Esdraelon."

Judith 7:4

"But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were terrified, and everyone said to his neighbor, “Now these men will lick up the face of all the earth. Neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills will be able to bear their weight."

Judith 7:5

"Every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that night."

Judith 7:6

"But on the second day Holofernes led out all his cavalry in the sight of the children of Israel which were in Bethulia,"

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