Judith 9:11-15 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

11. Raise up your arm, just as from the beginning, and throw down their power by your power. Let their power fall, in their anger, for they promise themselves to violate your sanctuary, and to pollute the tabernacle of your name, and to cut down by their sword the horn of your altar.

12. Act, O Lord, so that his arrogance may be cut off with his own sword.

13. Let him be seized by the snare of his own eyes in my regard, and may you strike him by the attraction of my lips.

14. Give me constancy in my soul, so that I may hold him in contempt, and give me virtue, so that I may overthrow him.

15. For this will be a memorial to your name, when he will be overthrown by the hand of a woman.

Judith 9