Jdt 16:1 

Then Judith began to sing this thanksgiving in all Israel, 

and all the people sang after her this song of praise. 

Jdt 16:2 

And Judith said, Begin unto my God with timbrels, sing unto 

my Lord with cymbals: tune unto him a new psalm: exalt him, and 

call upon his name. 

Jdt 16:3 

For God breaketh the battles: for among the camps in the 

midst of the people he hath delivered me out of the hands of 

them that persecuted me. 

Jdt 16:4 

Assur came out of the mountains from the north, he came with 

ten thousands of his army, the multitude whereof stopped the 

torrents, and their horsemen have covered the hills. 

Jdt 16:5 

He bragged that he would burn up my borders, and kill my 

young men with the sword, and dash the sucking children against 

the ground, and make mine infants as a prey, and my virgins as a 

spoil. 

Jdt 16:6 

But the Almighty Lord hath disappointed them by the hand of a 

woman. 

Jdt 16:7 

For the mighty one did not fall by the young men, neither did 

the sons of the Titans smite him, nor high giants set upon him: 

but Judith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty 

of her countenance. 

Jdt 16:8 

For she put off the garment of her widowhood for the 

exaltation of those that were oppressed in Israel, and anointed 

her face with ointment, and bound her hair in a tire, and took a 

linen garment to deceive him. 

Jdt 16:9 

Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty took his mind 

prisoner, and the fauchion passed through his neck. 

Jdt 16:10 

The Persians quaked at her boldness, and the Medes were 

daunted at her hardiness. 

Jdt 16:11 

Then my afflicted shouted for joy, and my weak ones cried 

aloud; but they were astonished: these lifted up their voices, 

but they were overthrown. 

Jdt 16:12 

The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and 

wounded them as fugatives' children: they perished by the battle 

of the Lord. 

Jdt 16:13 

I will sing unto the Lord a new song: O Lord, thou art great 

and glorious, wonderful in strength, and invincible. 

Jdt 16:14 

Let all creatures serve thee: for thou spakest, and they were 

made, thou didst send forth thy spirit, and it created them, and 

there is none that can resist thy voice. 

Jdt 16:15 

For the mountains shall be moved from their foundations with 

the waters, the rocks shall melt as wax at thy presence: yet 

thou art merciful to them that fear thee. 

Jdt 16:16 

For all sacrifice is too little for a sweet savour unto thee, 

and all the fat is not sufficient for thy burnt offering: but he 

that feareth the Lord is great at all times. 

Jdt 16:17 

Woe to the nations that rise up against my kindred! the Lord 

Almighty will take vengeance of them in the day of judgment, in 

putting fire and worms in their flesh; and they shall feel them, 

and weep for ever. 

Jdt 16:18 

Now as soon as they entered into Jerusalem, they worshipped 

the Lord; and as soon as the people were purified, they offered 

their burnt offerings, and their free offerings, and their 

gifts. 

Jdt 16:19 

Judith also dedicated all the stuff of Holofernes, which the 

people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken 

out of his bedchamber, for a gift unto the Lord. 

Jdt 16:20 

So the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the 

sanctuary for the space of three months and Judith remained with 

them. 

Jdt 16:21 

After this time every one returned to his own inheritance, 

and Judith went to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, 

and was in her time honourable in all the country. 

Jdt 16:22 

And many desired her, but none knew her all the days of her 

life, after that Manasses her husband was dead, and was gathered 

to his people. 

Jdt 16:23 

But she increased more and more in honour, and waxed old in 

her husband's house, being an hundred and five years old, and 

made her maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they buried her 

in the cave of her husband Manasses. 

Jdt 16:24 

And the house of Israel lamented her seven days: and before 

she died, she did distribute her goods to all them that were 

nearest of kindred to Manasses her husband, and to them that 

were the nearest of her kindred. 

Jdt 16:25 

And there was none that made the children of Israel any more 

afraid in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.