Judith 9:4
Good News Translation
You let their wives be carried off, their daughters taken captive, and their possessions plundered by the Israelites, your chosen people, who were eager to do your will. Dinah's brothers were furious because of this disgrace to their family, so they called on you for help. "O my God, listen to my prayer, the prayer of a widow.

New Revised Standard Version
You gave up their wives for booty and their daughters to captivity, and all their booty to be divided among your beloved children who burned with zeal for you and abhorred the pollution of their blood and called on you for help. O God, my God, hear me also, a widow.

Contemporary English Version
Their wives were raped, and their children were carried off to become slaves. Dinah's relatives were furious and were eager to take revenge on the foreigners who had disgraced their family, and so they called on you for help. That's why you let the Israelites carry off the wealth of those foreigners. Lord God, I am a widow. Please listen to my prayer.

New American Bible
Their wives you handed over to plunder, and their daughters to captivity, and all the spoils you divided among your favored children, who burned with zeal for you and in their abhorrence of the defilement of their blood called on you for help. O God, my God, hear me also, a widow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou hast done the things of old, and hast devised one thing after another: and what thou hast designed hath been done.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thou hast done the things of old, and hast devised one thing after another: and what thou hast designed hath been done.

Judith 9:2
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 9:3
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 9:5
For all thy ways are prepared, and in thy providence thou hast placed thy judgments.

Judith 9:6
Look upon the camp of the Assyrians now, as thou wast pleased to look upon the camp of the Egyptians, when they pursued armed after thy servants, trusting in their chariots, and in their horsemen, and in a multitude of warriors.

Context
Judith 9
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. 5For all thy ways are prepared, and in thy providence thou hast placed thy judgments.…
Cross References
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 9:3
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 9:5
For all thy ways are prepared, and in thy providence thou hast placed thy judgments.

Judith 9:6
Look upon the camp of the Assyrians now, as thou wast pleased to look upon the camp of the Egyptians, when they pursued armed after thy servants, trusting in their chariots, and in their horsemen, and in a multitude of warriors.



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Judith 9:3
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