“ Chapter 14 1 Then Judith said to them, "Hear me now, my brethren! Take this head and hang it on the highest place of your walls! 2 And so, as soon as morning appears and the sun shines upon the earth, everyone must take his weapons and go forth, every valiant man out of the city, and with a captain set over them, as though you were going down into the field toward the watch of the Assyrians; but do not go down. 3 Then they will take their amour and go into their camp and call for the captains of the army of Assur; and they will run to the tent of Holofernes, but will not find him ”

“ Chapter 16 1 Then Judith began to sing this thanksgiving for all Israel, and all the people sang after her this song of praise. 2 And Judith said,
"Begin to my God with timbrels; sing to my Lord with cymbals; tune to him a new psalm; exalt him and call upon his name. 3 For God breaks the battles. For among the camps, in the midst of the people, he has delivered me out of the hands of those who persecuted me. 4 Assur came out of the mountains from the north, he came with ten thousands of his army, their great number stopped the torrents and their horsemen covered the hills. ”

“ And he said, 'None of my words will be in vain.'
5 "And you, Achior, a hired hand of Ammon, who has spoken these words on the day of your iniquity, will see my face no more from this day forward, until I take vengeance on this nation which came out of Egypt. 6 And then the sword of my army and the multitude of those who serve me will pass through your sides, and you will fall among their slain, when I return. 7 Now therefore, my servants will bring you back into the hill country and will set you in one of the cities of the passages; 8 and you will not perish, until you are destroyed with them. ”

“ Surely it is not good for one man among them to be left, who, being set free, might deceive the whole earth." 20 And those who lay near Holofernes went out, and they and all his servants brought her into the tent. 21 Now Holofernes rested on his bed under a canopy, which was woven with purple and gold and emeralds and precious stones. 22 So they informed him about her; and he came out in front of his tent with silver lamps going before him. 23 And when Judith was presented before him and his servants, they all marveled at the beauty of her countenance ”

“ God, our God, is with us to show his power yet in Jerusalem and his forces against the enemy, as he has truly done on this day!" 12 Now when the men of her city heard her voice, they hurried down to the gate of their city and they called the elders of the city. ”

“ And Judith went to Bethulia and remained in her own possession; and during her time she was held in honor throughout the country. 22 And many desired her, but none knew her all the days of her life, after Manasseh her husband was dead and was gathered to his people. 23 But she increased more and more in honor; and she grew old in her husband's house, reaching the age of one hundred five years; and she made her woman servant free. So she died in Bethulia, and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasseh. 24 And the house of Israel lamented for her seven days. ”

“ Chapter 2 1 And in the eighteenth year, on the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians that he should, as he had said, avenge himself upon all the earth. 2 So he called all his officers to him, and all his nobles, and discussed with them his secret plan, and, with his own mouth, he ensured the scourging of the whole earth. 3 Then they decreed the destruction of all flesh, of all who did not obey the commandment of his mouth. ”

“ No, my brethren, do not provoke the Lord our God to anger.
15 "For if he will not help us within these five days, he has power to defend us when he will, even every day, or to destroy us before our enemies. 16 Do not bind the plans of the Lord our God; for God is not like man as if he could be threatened; neither is he like the son of man so that he would be wavering. ”

“ Chapter 7 1 The next day Holofernes commanded all his army and all his people who had arrived take his side that they should remove their camp from opposite Bethulia and capture in advance the ascents of the hill country in order to make war against the children of Israel. 2 Then their strong men removed their camps on that day; and the army of the men of war was one hundred seventy thousand foot soldiers, and twelve thousand horsemen, besides the baggage and the other men who were afoot among them, a very great multitude. ”

“ Chapter 10 1 Now after this, she ceased to cry to the God of Israel, and she completed all these words. 2 She rose where she had fallen down and called her maid; and she went down into the house in which she lived on the sabbath days and on her feast days, 3 and she pulled off the sackcloth which she had on, and put off the garments of her widowhood, and washed her body all over with water, and anointed herself with precious ointment, and braided the hair of her head and put a headdress on it, and put on her garments of gladness, which she used to wear during the life of Manasseh her husband. ”

“ Then you will go forth with all your army, and there will be none among them who will withstand you. 19 And I will lead you through the midst of Judea, until you come against Jerusalem, and I will set your throne in the midst thereof; and you will drive them as sheep which have no shepherd, and a dog will not so much as open his mouth at you; for these things were told to me according to my foreknowledge, and they were declared to me, and I am sent to tell you."
20 Then her words pleased Holofernes and all his servants ”

“ Yes, they considered him to be only one man; and they sent his ambassadors away from them with nothing to show except disgrace. 12 Therefore Nebuchadnezzar was very angry with all this country; and he swore by his throne and kingdom that he would surely be avenged upon all those coasts of Cilicia and Damascus and Syria, and that he would slay with the sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Judea, and all who were in Egypt, up to the very borders of the two seas. ”

“ And he came to Ecbatane and took the towers and pillaged its streets and turned its beauty into shame. 15 He also overpowered Arphaxad at the mountains of Ragau and struck him through with his darts, and destroyed him utterly on that day. 16 So he returned afterward to Nineveh, both he and all his company of diverse nations, who were a very great multitude of men of war; and there he took his ease and banqueted, both he and his army, for one hundred twenty days. ”

“ And they did not have enough water to drink their fill for even one day, for they rationed their water. 22 Therefore their young children lost heart, and their women and young men fainted for thirst and fell down in the streets of the city and by the passageways of the gates ”