What sequence and claims does Judith Chapter 9 record?

As soon as the magistrates had departed, Judith entered her private oratory, clothed herself in rough haircloth, scattered ashes upon her head, and cast herself prostrate before the Lord in supplication. She invoked the Lord God of her ancestor Simeon, recalling how God had placed a sword in his hand to take vengeance against the foreigners who had violated a virgin. Remembering how God had given the wives of the transgressors as prey, their daughters into captivity, and their spoils to His zealous servants, the widow pleaded for divine assistance in her own perilous hour. She confessed that God had governed all historical events from ancient times, executing whatever His eternal providence had designed, since all divine judgments are prepared in His eternal counsel.

Looking upon the present crisis, Judith begged the Lord to look upon the massive Assyrian host just as He had once gazed upon the proud army of Egypt, which pursued His servants trusting in chariots, cavalry, and a multitude of warriors. Just as darkness, deep waters, and the surging sea had consumed the Egyptians, she prayed that the same ruin would overtake the Assyrians, who boasted in their vast numbers, chariots, pikes, shields, arrows, and spears. She proclaimed that the invaders were blind to the truth that the Lord is the true God who crushes warfare from the beginning. Knowing that the enemy intended to violate the sacred temple, profane the dwelling place of God's name, and cast down the horn of the altar with their swords, she implored the Almighty to crush their military might in their wrath and bring to pass that the general's haughty pride would be severed by his own sword.

Judith prayed that the hostile commander would be ensnared in the net of his eyes when looking upon her, and that the Lord would strike him down through the grace of her spoken words. She asked for mental constancy to despise him and unwavering courage to overthrow him, declaring that it would become a glorious monument to God's glorious name if this arrogant warrior should fall by the hand of a woman. Proclaiming that divine strength rests neither in vast armies nor in mighty warhorses, but that the prayers of the meek and humble have always pleased the Creator of the heavens and waters, Judith begged the Lord to remember His covenant. She asked Him to place persuasive words in her mouth and strengthen the resolve of her heart, so that His sacred house might remain undefiled and all nations of the earth might acknowledge that the Lord alone is God, with none other beside Him.

The edition separately explains that Judith praises God’s justice, not Simeon’s act, which his father condemned. It distinguishes his just zeal from the irregularity and excess of the punishment.