Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Judges 7:14-22 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

14. He to whom he spoke, answered: This is nothing else but the sword of Gedeon the son of Joas a man of Israel. For the Lord hath delivered Madian, and all their camp into his hand.

15. And when Gedeon had heard the dream, and the interpretation thereof, he adored: and returned to the camp of Israel, and said: Arise, for the Lord hath delivered the camp of Madian into our hands.

16. And he divided the three hundred men into three parts, and gave them trumpets in their hands, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

17. And he said to them: What you shall see me do, do you the same: I will go into one part of the camp, and do you as I shall do.

18. When the trumpet shall sound in my hand, do you also blow the trumpets on every side of the camp.

19. And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went into part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the watchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap the pitchers one against another.

20. And when they sounded their trumpets in three places round about the camp, and had broken their pitchers, they held their lamps in their left hands, and with their right hands the trumpets which they blew, and they cried out: The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon;

21. Standing every man in his place round about the enemies' camp. So all the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling they fled away.

22. And the three hundred men nevertheless persisted sounding the trumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into all the camp, and they killed one another,