Judith 13:2

In context

1When evening came, his slaves hurried to clear out. Bagoas shut the tent from outside and sent the attendants away from his lord’s presence, and they went off to their beds — all of them worn down, since the drinking had gone on so long. 2Judith was left alone in the tent, with Holofernes sprawled forward on his bed, drowned in his wine. 3Judith had told her slave to stand outside the bedchamber and watch for her to come out, as on every other day; she had said she would be going out to her prayer, and she had spoken to Bagoas in the same terms. 4They had all gone from her presence, and no one was left in the bedchamber, small or great. Judith stood beside his bed and said in her heart: “Lord God of every power, look in this hour on the works of my hands, for the lifting up of Jerusalem.