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.