Given by: Judith, declaring a covenant truth to God in her prayer. Given to: God, in praise — and, by declaration, to every believer weighing where real strength lies.

The Assyrian empire embodied confidence in multitude and cavalry; Judith answers imperial pride with Israel's older conviction that the Lord saves not by sword and spear but by His own hand for those who trust Him.

For thy power, O Lord, is not in a multitude, nor is thy pleasure in the strength of horses, nor from the beginning have the proud been acceptable to thee: but the prayer of the humble and the meek hath always pleased thee.

Rest your hope not in numbers or force but in the humble, meek prayer that has always pleased God.

Judith 9:16

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