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 mefrom the hand of my oppressors,and brought me into his campin the midst of his people.
3 The Assyrian came from the mountains in the north;he came with tens of thousandsof his warriors;their crowd of peopleblocked the ravines,and their cavalry covered the hills.
4 He bragged that he wouldburn 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.