17. For your servant is religious, and serves the God of heaven day and night: and now, my lord, I will abide with you, and your servant will go forth by night into the valley, and I will pray to God, and he shall tell me when they have committed their sins:
18. and I will come and show it also to you; and you shall go forth with all your host, and there shall be none of them that shall resist you.
19. And I will lead you through the midst of Judaea, until you come over against Jerusalem; and I will set your seat in the midst thereof; and you shall drive them as sheep that have no shepherd, and a dog shall not so much as open his mouth before you: for these things were told me according to my foreknowledge, and were declared to me, and I was sent to tell you.
20. And her words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and of all his servants; and they marveled at her wisdom, and said,
21. There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, for beauty of face, and wisdom of words.
22. And Holofernes said to her, God did well to send you before the people, that might should be in our hands, and destruction among them that lightly regarded my lord.
23. And now you are beautiful in your countenance, and witty in your words: for if you shall do as you have spoken, your God shall be my God, and you shall dwell in the house of king Nebuchadnezzar, and shall be renowned through the whole earth.