1 Then Judith sang this canticle to the Lord, saying:
2 "Call to the Lord with drums, sing to the Lord with cymbals, play for him a new psalm, exalt and invoke his name.
3 The Lord crushes wars; the Lord is his name.
4 He has set up his camp in the midst of his people, to rescue us from the hand of all our enemies.
5 Assur came from the mountains, from the North, with the multitude of his strength. His multitude blockaded the torrents, and their horses covered the valleys.
6 He told himself that he would set fire to my borders, and kill my young men with the sword, to give my children into plunder and my virgins into captivity.