Judith 9:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ so you gave up their rulers to be killed, and their bed, which was ashamed of the deceit they had practiced, was stained with blood, and you struck down slaves along with princes, and princes on their thrones. ⁴ You gave up their wives for booty and their daughters to captivity, and all their booty to be divided among your beloved children who burned with zeal for you and abhorred the pollution of their blood and called on you for help. O God, my God, hear me also, a widow.

⁵ “For you have done these things and those that went before and those that followed. You have designed the things that are now, and those that are to come. What you had in mind has happened;