Bible Verses

Then the officers of Holofernes led her to the tent, and she slept until midnight. She arose at the morning watch,

Judith said to him: “As your soul lives, my lord, your servant will not have finished what I have brought with me before the Lord has carried out by my hand what he has decided to do.”

Holofernes asked her: “When you have finished the things you have brought, where will we be able to get the same kind of food to give you, for there is no one of your race here?”

But Judith said, “I will not eat it, for fear that it might cause my downfall. What I brought with me is enough.”

Then Holofernes had her brought to the place where his silver dishes were laid out and ordered them to serve her his food and to pour her his wine to drink.

You are beautiful to look at and wise in your words: if you do as you have said, your God shall be my God; and you will live in the house of King Nebuchadnezzar and be famous worldwide.”

Holofernes said to her: “God has done well to send you ahead of this people, to show them that the power is in my hands; and that destruction is the fate of those who despised my lord.

“From one end of the earth to the other, there is no woman like her for the beauty of her face and the wisdom of her words.”

Her words pleased Holofernes and all his officers. They admired her wisdom and said:

I will lead you through Judea until I arrive in Jerusalem, where I will set up your tent. You will lead them like sheep without a shepherd; no dog will growl at you. I have been given a premonition of these things. It has been revealed to me, and I have been sent to make