Judith 13:4-6

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⁴ So everyone went out, and no one, either small or great, was left in the bedchamber. Then Judith, standing beside his bed, said in her heart, “O Lord God of all might, look in this hour on the work of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.^{(A) 5} Now indeed is the time to help your heritage and to carry out my design to destroy the enemies who have risen up against us.”^(B)

⁶ She went up to the bedpost near Holofernes’s head and took down his sword that hung there.^(C)