Judith 13:12

In context

10who dropped it into her food satchel. The two of them went out together, as their custom was, for prayer. They crossed the camp, went around that gorge, climbed the hill of Bethulia, and reached its gates. 11From far off Judith called to the men on guard at the gates: “Open! Open the gate! God is with us, our God — still working strength in Israel and force against our enemies, as he has done this very day.” 12When the men of her town heard her voice, they hurried down to their town gate and called the elders of the town together. 13They all came running, the smallest of them and the greatest, because her arrival was past anything they expected. They opened the gate, welcomed the two women in, kindled a fire for light, and crowded in a ring around them. 14And she said to them at the top of her voice: “Praise God! Praise him, praise God, who has not taken his mercy away from Israel’s house but has broken our enemies by my hand this very night!”