Judith 11:18
Then I will report this to you so that you can move forward with your entire army, and no one will be able to stand against you.
Then I will report this to you so that you can move forward with your entire army, and no one will be able to stand against you.
For your servant is a religious woman who worships God night and day. From now on, I will stay close to you, my lord. Every evening, I will go to the ravine and pray to God, and He will tell me when they have sinned.
I, your servant, have fled far from them after understanding all this. God has sent me to work with you to create deeds that will inspire terror worldwide and make those who hear about them talk.
Now it will happen that when this permission comes, and the people have acted upon it, on that same day, they will be handed over to you for their destruction.
They have sent messengers to Jerusalem—since those who live there have also done this—and they have instructed these men to bring back this permission from the Council of the Elders.
They have decided to consume these items entirely. However, it is illegal for anyone to even touch them with their hands.
Due to a shortage of food and water, they have decided to take what they need from their animals. They have made the decision to eat those things God, in His laws, forbade them to eat, including the firstfruits of the harvest and the tithes of wine and oil, which, after their consecration, had been
Yet my lord will not be turned back or fail. Death will catch them, for they have fallen into the sin that provokes God’s anger every time they commit it.
Now, all-powerful lord, do not dismiss what he said, but keep it in mind because it is true. Our nation will never be punished, nor the sword used against it, unless its people sin against their God.
We have heard about the discourse delivered in your council by Achior and its terms because the men of Bethulia took him in and reported to them everything he said in your presence.