Catholic Public Domain Version

Judith 3:3-9 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

3. All our cities and all our possessions, all mountains, and hills, and fields, and herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep, and goats, and horses, and camels, and all our resources and families are in your sight.

4. Let all that we have be subject to your law.

5. We, and our sons, are your servants.

6. Come to us as a peaceful lord, and use our service, just as it pleases you."

7. Then he descended from the mountains with horsemen, in great power, and he took charge of every city and of every inhabitant of the land.

8. And, from all the cities, he took for himself auxiliaries: strong men and well-chosen for war.

9. And such a dread lay upon those provinces, that the leading and honored inhabitants of all the cities, together with the people, went out to meet him at his arrival.