Judith 9:2

In context

1Judith fell on her face, put ashes on her head, and laid bare the sackcloth she was wearing. It was the hour when that evening’s incense was being offered in the house of God at Jerusalem, and Judith cried out to the Lord at the top of her voice and said: 2“Lord, God of Simeon my father, into whose hand you put a sword for vengeance on foreigners — men who loosened a virgin’s womb for defilement, who bared a thigh for shame, who profaned a womb for disgrace. You had said, ‘It shall not be done,’ and they did it. 3For that you handed their rulers over to butchery, and their bed, which had blushed at their deceit, was itself deceived into blood. You struck slaves down together with lords, and lords upon their thrones. 4You handed their wives over as plunder and their daughters into captivity, and all their plunder to be shared out among the sons you love — sons who burned with your own zeal, who were sickened by the defiling of their blood, and who called on you as their helper. God, God, my God — hear me too, a widow.