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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.