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.