Judith 14:1-3

New Catholic Bible

Triumph of the People of God

Response to the News of Holofernes’s Death

Chapter 14

Judith’s Counsel. ¹ Then Judith said to them, “Listen to me, my friends. Take this head and hang it upon the parapet of your wall. ² Then at daybreak, as soon as the sun rises, all of you should take up your weapons, and let all the able-bodied men march out of the city under the direction of a leader, as if you were about to march down to the plain to attack the Assyrian outpost. But do not go down. ³ Their soldiers will seize their weapons and go into the camp to rouse the commanders of the Assyrian army. When they rush to the tent of Holofernes and do not find him, panic will seize them and they will flee before you.