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Then Judith sung this canticle to the Lord, saying:
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Begin ye to the Lord with timbrels, sing ye to the Lord with cymbals, tune unto him a new psalm, extol and call upon his name.
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The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord is his name.
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He hath set his camp in the midst of his people, to deliver us from the hand of all our enemies.
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The Assyrians came out of the mountains from the north in the multitude of his strength: his multitude stopped up the torrents, and their horses covered the valleys.
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He bragged that he would set my borders on fire, and kill my young men with the sword, to make my infants a prey, and my virgins captives.
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But the almighty Lord hath struck him, and hath delivered him into the hands of a woman, and hath slain him.
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For their mighty one did not fall by young men, neither did the sons of Titan strike him, nor tall giants oppose themselves to him, but Judith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty of her face.