Judith 16
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1THen Iudeth began this confession in all Israel, and all the people sang this song with a loude voyce. 2And Iudeth said, Beginne vnto my God with tymbrels: sing to my Lord with cymbales: tune vnto him a psalme: exalt his praise, and call vpon his Name. 3For God breaketh the battels, and pitched his campe in the middes of the people, & deliuered me out of the hand of the persecuters. 5He said that he wolde burne vp my borders & kill my yong men with the sworde, and dash the sucking children against the grounde, & make mine infants as a pray, and my virgines a spoile. 6But the almightie Lord hathe broght them to naught by the hand of a woman. 7For the mightie did not fall by the yong men, nether did the sonnes of Titan smite him, nor the hie gyants inuade him, but Iudeth the daughter of Merari did discomfite him by the beautie of her countenance. 8For she put of the garment of her widdowhode, for the exaltacion of those that were oppressed in Israel, and anointed her face with ointment, and bounde vp her heere in a coife, and toke a linen garment to deceiue him. 9Her slippers rauished his eyes: her beautie toke his minde prisoner, and the fauchin passed through his necke. 10The Persians were astonished at her boldenes, and the Medes were troubled with her hardines. 11But mine afflicted reioyced, & my feble ones showted: then they feared, they lifted vp their voyce and turned backe. 12The children of maides perced them, and wounded them as they fled away like children: they perished by the battel of the Lord. 13I wil sing vnto the Lord a song and praise, O Lord, thou art great and glorious, maruelous and inuincible in power. 14Let all thy creatures serue thee: * for thou hast spoken and they were made: thou hast sent thy Spirit, and he made them vp: & there is none that can resist thy voyce. 15For the mountaines leape vp from their fundacions with the waters: the rockes melt at thy presence like waxe: yet thou art merciful to them that feare thee. 16For all sacrifice is to litle for a swete sauour, and all the fat is to litle for thy burne offring: but he that feareth the Lord, is great at all times. 17Wo to the nacions that rise vp against my kinred: the Lord almightie wil take vengeance of them in the day of iudgement, in sending fyre and wormes vpon their flesh, and they shal fele them & wepe for euer. 18¶ After, when they went vnto Ierusalem, they worshiped the Lord, and assone as the people were purified, they offred their burnt offrings, and their fre offrings, and their giftes. 19Iudeth also offred all the stuffe of Olofernes, which the people had giuen her, and gaue the canopie which she had taken of his bed, for an oblacion to the Lord. 20So the people reioyced in Ierusalem by the Sanctuarie, for the space of thre moneths, and Iudeth remained with them. 21After this time, euerie one returned to his owne inheritance, and Iudeth went to Bethulia, and remained in her owne possession, and was for her time honorable in all the countrey. 22And manie desired her, but none had her companie all the dayes of her life after that Manasses her housband was dead, & was gathered to "his people. 23But she increased more and more in honour, and waxed olde in her housbands house, being an hundreth and fiue yere olde, & made her maid fre: so she dyed in Bethulia, and they buryed her in the graue of her housband Manasses. 24And * the house of Israel lamented her seuen daies, & before she dyed, she did distribute her goods to all them that were nerest of kinred to Manasses her housband, and to them that were the nerest of her kinred. 25And there was none that made the children of Israel anie more afraied in the daies of Iudeth, nor a long time after her death.