Judith 11:17
Good News Translation
Sir, I am a religious woman; I worship the God of heaven day and night. I will stay here in your camp, and each night I will go out into the valley to pray to God, and he will tell me when the Israelites have sinned.

New Revised Standard Version
Your servant is indeed God-fearing and serves the God of heaven night and day. So, my lord, I will remain with you; but every night your servant will go out into the valley and pray to God. He will tell me when they have committed their sins.

Contemporary English Version
but I am still a faithful worshiper of the God of Heaven. I will stay here in this camp, and each night I will go into the valley to pray to God, and he will tell me when the Israelites have sinned.

New American Bible
Your servant is, indeed, a God-fearing woman, serving the God of heaven night and day. Now I will remain with you, my lord; but each night your servant will go out into the valley and pray to God. He will tell me when they have committed their offenses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And because God is angry with them, I am sent to tell these very things to thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And because God is angry with them, I am sent to tell these very things to thee.

Judith 11:15
And he will tell me when he will repay them for their sins, and I will come and tell thee, so that I may bring thee through the midst of Jerusalem, and thou shalt have all the people of Israel, as sheep that have no shepherd, and there shall not so much as one dog bark against thee:

Judith 11:16
Because these things are told me by the providence of God.

Judith 11:18
And all these words pleased Holofernes, and his servants, and they admired her wisdom, and they said one to another:

Judith 11:19
There is not such another woman upon earth in look, in beauty, and in sense of words.

Context
Judith 11
16Because these things are told me by the providence of God. 17And because God is angry with them, I am sent to tell these very things to thee. 18And all these words pleased Holofernes, and his servants, and they admired her wisdom, and they said one to another:…
Cross References
Judith 11:15
And he will tell me when he will repay them for their sins, and I will come and tell thee, so that I may bring thee through the midst of Jerusalem, and thou shalt have all the people of Israel, as sheep that have no shepherd, and there shall not so much as one dog bark against thee:

Judith 11:16
Because these things are told me by the providence of God.

Judith 11:18
And all these words pleased Holofernes, and his servants, and they admired her wisdom, and they said one to another:

Judith 11:19
There is not such another woman upon earth in look, in beauty, and in sense of words.



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Judith 11:16
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