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When I had heard this thing, I tore my cloak and my mantle, plucked hair from my head and beard, and sat there stupefied. (Ezra 9, 3)
and his brethren Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David, the man of God. (Ezra the scribe was at their head.) (Nehemiah 12, 36)
Judith threw herself down prostrate, with ashes strewn upon her head, and wearing nothing over her sackcloth. While the incense was being offered in the temple of God in Jerusalem that evening, Judith prayed to the Lord with a loud voice: (Judith 9, 1)
She went to the bedpost near the head of Holofernes, and taking his sword from it, (Judith 13, 6)
drew close to the bed, grasped the hair of his head, and said, "Strengthen me this day, O God of Israel!" (Judith 13, 7)
Then with all her might she struck him twice in the neck and cut off his head. (Judith 13, 8)
She rolled his body off the bed and took the canopy from its supports. Soon afterward, she came out and handed over the head of Holofernes to her maid, (Judith 13, 9)
Then she took the head out of the pouch, showed it to them, and said: "Here is the head of Holofernes, general in charge of the Assyrian army, and here is the canopy under which he lay in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him down by the hand of a woman. (Judith 13, 15)
Then Uzziah said to her: "Blessed are you, daughter, by the Most High God, above all the women on earth; and blessed be the Lord God, the creator of heaven and earth, who guided your blow at the head of the chief of our enemies. (Judith 13, 18)
Then Judith said to them: "Listen to me, my brothers. Take this head and hang it on the parapet of your wall. (Judith 14, 1)
So they called Achior from the house of Uzziah. When he came and saw the head of Holofernes in the hand of one of the men in the assembly of the people, he fell forward in a faint. (Judith 14, 6)
At daybreak they hung the head of Holofernes on the wall. Then all the Israelite men took up their arms and went to the slopes of the mountain. (Judith 14, 11)