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