Judith 9:4-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
4 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.
5 “It is you who were the author of those events and of what preceded and followed them. The present and the future you have also planned.(A) Whatever you devise comes into being. 6 The things you decide come forward and say, ‘Here we are!’ All your ways are in readiness, and your judgment is made with foreknowledge.(B)
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