Judith 13:13

In context

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!” 15She drew the head out of the satchel, showed it to them, and said: “Here is the head of Holofernes, commander in chief of the forces of Asshur, and here is the canopy he lay under in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him down by a woman’s hand.