Good News Translation
Tonight, the three of you must stand guard at the gate so that my slave woman and I can leave the town. And before the day comes on which you have promised to surrender, the Lord will use me to rescue the people of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
Stand at the town gate tonight so that I may go out with my maid; and within the days after which you have promised to surrender the town to our enemies, the Lord will deliver Israel by my hand.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord will use me to rescue the people of Israel before the day you agreed to surrender to the Assyrians. I want the three of you to stand guard at the town gate tonight, so that my servant woman and I can leave safely.

New American Bible
Stand at the city gate tonight to let me pass through with my maid; and within the days you have specified before you will surrender the city to our enemies, the Lord will deliver Israel by my hand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I desire that you search not into what I am doing, and till I bring you word let nothing else be done but to pray for me to the Lord our God.

But I desire that you search not into what I am doing, and till I bring you word let nothing else be done but to pray for me to the Lord our God.

Judith 8:31
So that which I intend to do prove ye if it be of God, and pray that God may strengthen my design.

Judith 8:32
You shall stand at the gate this night, and I will go out with my maidservant: and pray ye, that as you have said, in five days the Lord may look down upon his people Israel.

Judith 8:34
And Ozias the prince of Juda said to her: Go in peace, and the Lord be with thee to take revenge of our enemies. So returning they departed.

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: