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Then Judith began to sing this thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang after her this song of praise.
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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!
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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.
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"Assyria 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.
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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.
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"But the Almighty Lord hath disappointed them by the hand of a woman.
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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.
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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 an adornment, and took a linen garment to deceive him.
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Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty took his mind prisoner, and the sword passed through his neck.