7. For their mighty one did not fall by young men, Neither did sons of the Titans strike him. Nor did high giants set upon him: But Judith the daughter of Merari made him weak with the beauty of her countenance.
8. For she put off the apparel of her widowhood For the exaltation of those that were distressed in Israel, She anointed her face with ointment, And bound her hair in a tire, And took a linen garment to deceive him.
9. Her sandal ravished his eye, And her beauty took his soul prisoner: The scimitar passed through his neck.
10. The Persians quaked at her daring, And the Medes were daunted at her boldness.
11. Then my lowly ones shouted aloud, And my weak ones were terrified and crouched for fear: They lifted up their voice, and they were turned to flight.
12. The sons of damsels pierced them through, And wounded them as runagates’ children; They perished by the battle of my Lord.
13. I will sing to my God a new song: O Lord, you are great and glorious, Marvelous in strength, invincible.
14. Let all your creation serve you: For you spoke, and they were made, You did send forth your spirit, and it builded them, And there is none that shall resist your voice.
15. For the mountains shall be moved from their foundations with the waters, And the rocks shall melt as wax at your presence: But you are yet merciful to them that fear you.
16. For all sacrifice is little for a sweet savor, And all the fat is very little for a whole burnt offering to you: But he that fears the Lord is great continually.
17. Woe to the nations that rise up against my race: The Lord Almighty will take vengeance of them in the day of judgement, To put fire and worms in their flesh; And they shall weep and feel their pain for ever.
18. Now when they came to Jerusalem, they worshipped God; and when the people were purified, they offered their whole burnt offerings, and their free will offerings, and their gifts.
19. And Judith dedicated all the stuff of Holofernes, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken for herself out of his bedchamber, for a gift to the Lord.
20. And the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for the space of three months, and Judith remained with them.
21. But after these days every one departed to his own inheritance, and Judith went away to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was honorable in her time in all the land.
22. And many desired her, and no man knew her all the days of her life, from the day that Manasses her husband died and was gathered to his people.
23. And she increased in greatness exceedingly; and she waxed old in her husband’s house, to a hundred and five years, and let her maid go free: and she died in Bethulia; and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.