Judith 7:14-16

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁴ They and their wives and children will waste away with famine, and before the sword reaches them they will be strewn about in the streets where they live. ¹⁵ Thus you will pay them back with evil, because they rebelled and did not receive you peaceably.”

¹⁶ These words pleased Holofernes and all his attendants, and he gave orders to do as they had said.