Judith 11
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1THen said Olofernes vnto her, Woman, be of good comfort: feare not in thine heart: for I neuer hurt any that wolde serue Nabuchodonosor the King of all the earth. 2Now therefore if thy people that dwelleth in the mountaines, had not despised me, I wolde not haue lifted vp my speare against them: but they haue procured these things to them selues. 3But now tel me wherefore thou art fled from them, and art come vnto vs: for thou art come for safegard: be of good comfort, thou shalt liue from this night, & hereafter. 4For none shal hurt thee, but intreat thee wel, as they do the seruants of King Nabuchodonosor my lord. 5Then Iudeth said vnto him, Receiue the wordes of thy seruant, & suffer thine handmaide to speake in thy presence, and I wil declare no lie to my lord this night. 6And if thou wilt follow the wordes of thine handmaide, God wil bring the thing perfectly to passe by thee, & my lord shal not faile of his purpose. 7As Nabuchodonosor King of all the earth liueth, and as his power is of force, who hathe sent thee to reforme all persones, not onely men shal be made subiect to him by thee, but also the beastes of the fields, & the cattel, & the foules of the heauen shal liue by thy power vnder Nabuchodonosor & all his house. 8For we haue heard of thy wisdome and of thy prudent spirit, & it is declared through the whole earth, that thou onely art excellent in all the kingdome, and of a wonderful knowledge, and in feates of warre marueilous. 9Now as concerning the matter which Achior did speake in thy counsel, we haue heard his wordes: for the men of Bethulia did take him, & he declared vnto them all that he had spoken vnto thee. 10Therefore, ô lord & gouernour, reiect not his worde, but set it in thine heart, for it is true: for there is no punishment against our people, nether can the sworde preuaile against them, except they sinne against their God. 11Now therefore lest my lord shulde be frustrate, and voide of his purpose, & that death may fall vpon them, and that they may be taken in their sinne whiles they prouoke their God to angre, which is so oft times as they do that which is not beseming, 12(For because their vittailes faile, and all their water is wasted, thei haue determined to take their cattel, and haue purposed to consume all things that God had forbidden them to eat by his Lawes: 13Yea, they haue purposed to consume the first frutes of the wheat, and the tithes of the wine, and of the oile which they had reserued and sanctified for the Priests that serue in Ierusalem before the face of our God: the which things it is not lawful for anie of the people to touche with their hands, 14Moreouer they haue sent to Ierusalem, because they also that dwel there, haue done the like, suche as shulde bring them licence from the Senate) 15Now when they shal bring them worde, they wil do it, and they shalbe giuen thee to be destroyed the same day. 16Wherefore I thine handmaid, knowing all this, am fled from their presence, and God hathe sent me to worke a thing with thee, whereof all the earth shal wonder, & whosoeuer shal heare it. 17For thy seruant feareth God, and worshipeth the God of heauen day and night, and now let me remaine with thee, my lord, and let thy seruant go out in the night into the valley, and I wil pray vnto God, that he may reueile vnto me when they shal commit their sinnes, 18And I wil come and shewe it vnto thee: then thou shalt go forthe with all thine armie, & there shalbe none of them that shal resist thee. 19And I wil lead thee through the middes of Iudea, vntil thou come before Ierusalem, and I wil set thy throne in the middes thereof, and thou shalt driue them as shepe that haue no shepherd, and a dogge shal not barcke with his mouthe against thee: for these things haue bene spoken vnto me, & declared vnto me according to my foreknowledge, and I am sent to shewe thee. 20¶Then her wordes pleased Olofernes, and all his seruants, and they marueiled at her wisdome, and said, 21There is not suche a woman in all the worlde, bothe for beautie of face, and wisdome of wordes. 22Likewise Olofernes said vnto her, God hathe done this, to send thee before the people, that strength might be in our hands, and destruction vpon them that despise my lord. 23And now thou art bothe beautiful in thy countenance, & wittie in thy wordes: surely if thou do as thou hast spoken, thy God shalbe my God, and thou shalt dwell in the house of Nabuchodonosor, & shalt be renomed throughout the whole earth.