1
Judith said: Begin to praise my God with drums; sing to the Lord with cymbals. Adapt a psalm for him; lift up your praise, and call upon his name.
2
The Lord is a God who crushes wars. He rescued me from the hand of my oppressors, and brought me into his camp in the midst of his people.
3
The Assyrian came from the mountains in the north; he came with tens of thousands of his warriors; their crowd of people blocked the ravines, and their cavalry covered the hills.
4
He bragged that he would burn my territory, kill my young men with the sword, throw my infants to the ground, take my children as slaves, and rape my virgins.
5
But the Lord Almighty overthrew them by the hand of a woman.