Judith 6:17-19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁷ In reply he told them what had taken place at the council of Holofernes, what he himself had said in the presence of the Assyrian leaders, and all that Holofernes had boasted he would do to the house of Israel.

¹⁸ On hearing this, the people fell prostrate in worship of God and cried out, ¹⁹ “O Lord, God of heaven, behold their arrogance. Have pity on our people in their humiliation, and look kindly this day on those who are consecrated^[a] to you.”