Judith 12:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴ Judith replied, ‘As surely as you live, my lord, your servant will not use up the supplies I have with me before the Lord carries out by my hand what he has determined.’

⁵ Then the servants of Holofernes brought her into the tent, and she slept until midnight. Towards the morning watch she got up ⁶ and sent this message to Holofernes: ‘Let my lord now give orders to allow your servant to go out and pray.’