1 Then Holofernes said to her: 'Be steadfast in soul, and do not be terrified in your heart. For I have never harmed a man who was willing to serve king Nebuchadnezzar.
2 But if your people had not despised me, I would not have lifted up my lance over them.
3 But now, tell me, for what reason have you withdrawn from them, and why has it pleased you to come to us?'
4 And Judith said to him: 'Receive the words of your maidservant. For, if you will follow the words of your maidservant, the Lord will accomplish an excellent thing by you.
5 For, as Nebuchadnezzar the king of the earth lives, and as his power lives, which is with you for the chastising of all straying souls: not only men serve him through you, but also the beasts of the field are submissive to him.
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