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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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Assur 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 a tire, 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 fauchion passed through his neck.