The Koine Bible

And Judith said: begin for my God with tambourines, sing to the Lord with cymbals, harmonize a psalm and praise to him, exalt and call upon his name

For God who crushes wars is Lord, for into his camps in the midst of the people he delivered me out of the hand of those pursuing me

Assur came from the mountains from the north; he came with myriads of his power, whose multitude blocked up torrents, and their horses covered the hills.

He said he would burn up my borders and kill my young men with the sword and make my nursing children to the ground and give my infants for plunder and plunder my virgins

The Lord Almighty has made them of no account by the hand of a woman.

For their mighty one did not fall by young men, nor did sons of giants strike him, nor did tall giants set upon him, but Judith, daughter of Merari, by the beauty of her face disabled him.

For she stripped off the garment of her widowhood for the exaltation of those toiling in Israel; she anointed her face with perfumed oil.

And she bound her hair with a mitra and took a linen robe for his deceit

Her sandal seized his eye, and her beauty captured his soul; the short sword passed through his neck.

The Persians shuddered at her daring, and the Medes at her boldness were troubled.

Then my lowly ones shouted, and my weak ones were afraid, and they were terrified; they lifted up their voice, and they were overthrown.

The sons of girls pierced them through, and as children of deserters they wounded them; they perished from the battle line of my Lord.

I will sing to my God a new song; Lord, you are great and glorious, wonderful in strength, unsurpassed

Let all your whole creation serve you, because you spoke, and they came to be; you sent your spirit, and it built, and there is no one who will resist your voice.

For mountains shall be shaken from their foundations with the waters, and rocks shall melt like wax before your face, and yet to those who fear you, you will be gracious to them

For every sacrifice is little for a fragrance of sweetness, and every fat piece is least for a whole burnt offering to you; but the one who fears the Lord is great forever

Woe to the nations rising up against my race; the Lord Almighty will avenge them in a day of judgment, to give fire and worms into their flesh, and they will weep in feeling forever

And when they came to Jerusalem, they worshiped God; and when the people had been cleansed, they offered up their burnt offerings and their voluntary offerings and their gifts

And Judith dedicated all the articles of Holofernes, as many as the people had given her, and the canopy which she had taken for herself from his bedchamber, she gave as an offering to God

And the people were rejoicing in Jerusalem before the holy ones for three months, and Judith remained with them.

But after these days each departed to his inheritance, and Judith went away to Bethulia and remained on her property, and she was, in her time, renowned in all the land.

And many desired her, and no man knew her all the days of her life, from the day when Manasses her husband died, and she was added to his people.

And she advanced very greatly, and she grew old in the house of her husband, one hundred and five years, and she left her maid free, and she died in Bethulia, and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasseh.

And the house of Israel mourned her seven days, and divided her possessions before her death to all those nearest of Manasseh, her husband, and to those nearest of her kindred.

And there was no longer anyone frightening the sons of Israel in the days of Judith, and after she died for many days.