Judith 10:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

¹³ For this reason I thought with myself, saying: I will go to the presence of the prince Holofernes, that I may tell him their secrets, and shew him by what way he may take them, without the loss of one man of his army.

¹⁴ And when the men had heard her words, they beheld her face, and their eyes were amazed, for they wondered exceedingly at her beauty.