The Book of Judith 16

1And Judith began to sing this song of thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang with loud voices this song of praise. 2Judith said, 3For the Lord is the God that crushes battles. 4Asshur came out of the mountains from the north. 5He said that he would burn up my borders, 6“The Almighty Lord brought them to nothing by the hand of a woman. 7For their mighty one did not fall by young men, 8“For she put off the apparel of her widowhood 9Her sandal ravished his eye. 10“The Persians quaked at her daring. 11“Then my lowly ones shouted aloud. 12The sons of ladies pierced them through, 13“I will sing to my God a new song: 14Let all your creation serve you; 15For the mountains will be moved from their foundations with the waters, 16For all sacrifice is little for a sweet savor, 17“Woe to the nations who rise up against my race! 18Now when they came to Jerusalem, they worshipped God. When the people were purified, they offered their whole burnt offerings, their free will offerings, and their gifts. 19Judith dedicated all Holofernes’ stuff, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken for herself out of his bedchamber, for a gift to the Lord. 20And the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for three months, and Judith remained with them. 21But after these days, everyone departed to his own inheritance. Judith went away to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was honorable in her time in all the land. 22Many desired her, and no man knew her all the days of her life, from the day that Manasses her husband died and was gathered to his people. 23She increased in greatness exceedingly; and she grew old in her husband’s house, to one hundred five years, and let her maid go free. Then she died in Bethulia. They buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses. 24The house of Israel mourned for her seven days. She distributed her goods before she died to all those who were nearest of kin to Manasses her husband, and to those who were nearest of her own kindred. 25There was no one that made the children of Israel afraid any more in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.