manifested; but from the beginning of thy days all the people
have known thy understanding, because the disposition of thine
heart is good.

Jdt 8:30
But the people were very thirsty, and compelled us to do unto
them as we have spoken, and to bring an oath upon ourselves,
which we will not break.

Jdt 8:31
Therefore now pray thou for us, because thou art a godly
woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and
we shall faint no more.

Jdt 8:32
Then said Judith unto them, Hear me, and I will do a thing,
which shall go throughout all generations to the children of our
nation.

Jdt 8:33
Ye shall stand this night in the gate, and I will go forth
with my waitingwoman: and within the days that ye have promised
to deliver the city to our enemies the Lord will visit Israel by
mine hand.

Jdt 8:34
But enquire not ye of mine act: for I will not declare it
unto you, till the things be finished that I do.

Jdt 8:35
Then said Ozias and the princes unto her, Go in peace, and
the Lord God be before thee, to take vengeance on our enemies.

Jdt 8:36
So they returned from the tent, and went to their wards.

Jdt 9:1
Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and
uncovered the sackcloth wherewith she was clothed; and about the
time that the incense of that evening was offered in Jerusalem
in the house of the Lord Judith cried with a loud voice, and
said,

Jdt 9:2
O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword
to take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a
maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and
polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It
shall not be so; and yet they did so:

Jdt 9:3
Wherefore thou gavest their rulers to be slain, so that they
dyed their bed in blood, being deceived, and smotest the
servants with their lords, and the lords upon their thrones;

Jdt 9:4
And hast given their wives for a prey, and their daughters to
be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among thy dear
children; which were moved with thy zeal, and abhorred the
pollution of their blood, and called upon thee for aid: O God, O
my God, hear me also a widow.

Jdt 9:5
For thou hast wrought not only those things, but also the
things which fell out before, and which ensued after; thou hast
thought upon the things which are now, and which are to come.

Jdt 9:6
Yea, what things thou didst determine were ready at hand, and
said, Lo, w