2 She sang,“Praise my God and sing to him;praise the Lord with drums and cymbals;play a new song for him.Praise him and call on him for help.
3 The Lord is a warrior who ends war.He rescued me from my pursuersand brought me back to his people's camp.
4 Down from the mountains of the north came the Assyrians,with their tens of thousands of soldiers.Their troops blocked the rivers in the valleys;their cavalry covered the mountains.
5 They threatened to set fire to our country,slaughter our young men,dash our babies to the ground,take our children away as captives,and carry off all our young women.
6 But the Lord Almighty tricked them;he used a woman to stop them.
7 Their hero was not slain by young soldiersor attacked and killed by mighty giants.It was Judith, the daughter of Merari,who brought him down with her beauty.
8 She gave victory to the oppressed people of Israel,when she took off her widow's clothes,and put on a linen dress to entice him.She put on her rich perfumesand tied a ribbon round her hair.