Given by: Judith, declaring in her canticle who the Lord is. Given to: Israel — and, by declaration, to every heart tempted to trust in force rather than in God.

Amid empires that boasted in their armies and worshipped their kings, Israel confessed a Lord who is himself the true warrior and peace-maker; the deliverance of Bethulia by a widow's hand underscores that the end of war belongs to God, not to might.

The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord is his name.

Know God as the one who ends wars and delivers, and rest your hope for peace in His name, not in force of arms.

Judith 16:3

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