You are putting the Lord Almighty to the test, but you will never learn anything!You cannot plumb the depths of the human heart or understand the workings of the human mind; how do you expect to search out God, who made all these things, and find out his mind or comprehend his thought? (Judith 8:13-14)
The enemy has surrounded the city. The people are in despair. A deadline is offered. To placate the people's complaints the leaders agree: without divine intervention of some sort in five days the town will submit and surrender.
Judith protests that this decision limits what is possible. She argues that in seeking to define our situation we unnecessarily constrain our opportunities. Rather, we must remain perpetually open to the way of emergence, the unfolding of reality and see in this the intention of that which is ultimately real: Jehovah, literally "that which exists."
Given her advocacy of radical openness, Judith offers a paradoxical prayer,"Look at their pride, and send your wrath upon their heads. Give to me, a widow, the strong hand to do what I plan. By the deceit of my lips strike down the slave with the prince and the prince with his servant; crush their arrogance by the hand of a woman." (Judith 9:9-10)
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