Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation That is why you let their leaders be killed--put to death on the same bed where they had raped the woman. You destroyed them all, slaves, princes, and rulers on their thrones. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And who gavest their wives to be made a prey, and their daughters into captivity: and all their spoils to be divided to the servants, who were zealous with thy zeal: assist, I beseech thee, O Lord God, me a widow. Judith 9:1And when they were gone, Judith went into her oratory: and putting on haircloth, laid ashes on her head: and falling down prostrate before the Lord, she cried to the Lord, saying: Judith 9:2 Lord God of my father Simeon, who gavest him a sword to execute vengeance against strangers, who had defiled by their uncleanness, and uncovered the virgin unto confusion: Judith 9:4 For thou hast done the things of old, and hast devised one thing after another: and what thou hast designed hath been done. Judith 9:5 For all thy ways are prepared, and in thy providence thou hast placed thy judgments. Context Judith 9…2Lord God of my father Simeon, who gavest him a sword to execute vengeance against strangers, who had defiled by their uncleanness, and uncovered the virgin unto confusion: 3And who gavest their wives to be made a prey, and their daughters into captivity: and all their spoils to be divided to the servants, who were zealous with thy zeal: assist, I beseech thee, O Lord God, me a widow. 4For thou hast done the things of old, and hast devised one thing after another: and what thou hast designed hath been done.… Cross References Judith 9:1 And when they were gone, Judith went into her oratory: and putting on haircloth, laid ashes on her head: and falling down prostrate before the Lord, she cried to the Lord, saying: Judith 9:2 Lord God of my father Simeon, who gavest him a sword to execute vengeance against strangers, who had defiled by their uncleanness, and uncovered the virgin unto confusion: Judith 9:4 For thou hast done the things of old, and hast devised one thing after another: and what thou hast designed hath been done. Judith 9:5 For all thy ways are prepared, and in thy providence thou hast placed thy judgments. |