Judith 10:10-12

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁰ But Judith praying to the Lord, passed through the gates, she and her maid.

¹¹ And it came to pass, when she went down the hill, about break of day, that the watchmen of the Assyrians met her and stopped her, saying: Whence comest thou? or whither goest thou?

¹² And she answered: I am a daughter of the Hebrews, and I am fled from them, because I knew they would be made a prey to you, because they despised you, and would not of their own accord yield themselves, that they might find mercy in your sight.