"Let not this fair gentlewoman fear to approach my lord and to be honored in his presence, and to drink wine and be merry with us,
and to become this day like one of the daughters of the Assyrians, who serve in the house of Nebuchadnezzar."
Then Judith said to him, "Who am I now, that I should contradict my lord? Surely whatever pleases him I will do without hesitation, and it will be my joy until the day of my death."
So she arose, and she decked herself out with her apparel and all her woman's attire.