Judith 9
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1THen Iudeth fel vpon her face, and put ashes vpon her head, and put of the sackecloth wherewith she was clothed. And about the time that the incense of that euening was offred in Ierusalem in the House of the Lord, Iudeth cryed with a loude voyce, and said, 2O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whome thou gauest a sworde to take vengeance of the strangers which opened the wombe of the maide, and defiled her, and discouered the thigh with shame, and polluted the wombe to reproche (for thou hadest commanded that it shulde not so be, 3Yet thei did things for the which thou gauest their princes to the slaughter, for they were deceiued & washed their beds with blood) and hast striken the seruants with the gouernours, and the gouernours vpon their thrones, 4And hast giuen their wiues for a pray and their daughters to be captiues, & all their spoiles for a bootie to the children that thou louedst: which were moued with thy zeale, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, & called vpon thee for aide, ô God, ô my God, heare me also a widdowe. 5For thou hast wroght the things afore, & these, and the things that shalbe after, and thou considerest the things that are present, and the things that are to come. 6For the things which thou doest purpose, are present, & say, Beholde, we are here: for all thy waies are ready, & thy iudgements are foreknowen. 7Beholde, the Assyrians are multiplied by their power: they haue exalted them selues with horses & horsemen: they glorie in the strength of their fotemen: they trust in shield, speare and bowe, and sling, and do not knowe that thou art the Lord that breakest the battels: the Lord is thy Name. 8Breake thou their strength by thy power, and breake their force by thy wrath: for they haue purposed to defile thy Sanctuarie, & to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious Name resteth, and to cast downe with weapons the hornes of the altar. 9Beholde their pride, and send thy wrath vpon their heads: giue into mine hand which am a widow, the strength that I haue conceiued. 10Smite by the deceit of my lippes the seruant with the prince, and the prince with the seruant: abbate their height by the hand of a woman. 11For thy power standeth not in the multitude, nor thy might in strong men: but thou, ô Lord, art the helpe of the humble and litle ones, the defender of the weake, & the protector of them that are forsaken, & the Sauiour of them that are without hope. 12Surely, surely thou art the God of my father, & the God of the inheritance of Israel, the Lord of heauen and earth, the creator of the waters, the King of all creatures: heare thou my prayer, 13And grant me wordes & craft, & a wounde, and a stroke against them that entreprise cruel things against thy couenant, and against thine holy House, & against the toppe of Sion, and against the house of the possession of thy children. 14Shewe euidently among all thy people, & all the tribes, that they may knowe that thou art the God of all power & strength, & that there is none other that defendeth the people of Israel, but thou.