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1 Then Judith sung this canticle to the Lord,
saying:
2 Begin ye to the Lord with timbrels, sing ye to the Lord with cymbals, tune unto him
a new psalm, extol and call upon his name.
3 The Lord putteth
an end to wars, the Lord is his name.
4 He hath set his camp in the midst of his
people, to deliver us from the hand of all our enemies.
5 The Assyrians came out of the mountains
from the north in the multitude of his strength: his multitude stopped up the
torrents, and their horses covered the valleys.
6 He bragged that he would set my borders on
fire, and kill my young men with the sword, to make my infants a prey, and my
virgins captives.
7 But the almighty Lord hath struck him, and
hath delivered him into the hands of a woman, and hath slain him.
8 For their mighty one did not fall by
young men, neither did the sons of Titan strike him, nor tall giants oppose
themselves to him, but Judith the daughter of Merari
weakened him with the beauty of her face.
9 For she put off her the garments of
widowhood, and put on her the garments of joy, to give joy to the children of
Israel.
10 She anointed her face with ointment, and
bound up her locks with a crown, she took a new robe to deceive him.
11 Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty
made his soul her captive, with a sword she cut off his head.
12 The Persians quaked at her constancy, and
the Medes at her boldness.
13 Then the camp of the Assyrians howled, when
my lowly ones appeared, parched with thirst.
14 The sons of the damsels have pierced them
through, and they have killed them like children fleeing away: they perished
in battle before the face of the Lord my God.
15 Let us sing a hymn to the Lord, let us sing
a new hymn to our God.
16 O Adonai, Lord,
great art thou, and glorious in thy power, and no one can overcome thee.
17 Let all thy creatures serve thee: because
thou hast spoken, and they were made: thou didst send forth thy spirit, and
they were created, and there is no one that can resist thy voice.
18 The mountains shall be moved from the
foundations with the waters: the rooks shall melt as wax before thy face.
19 But they that fear thee, shall be great
with thee in all things.
20 Woe be to the nation that riseth up against my people: for the Lord almighty will
take revenge on them, in the day of judgment he will visit them.
21 For he will give fire, and worms into their
flesh, that they may burn, and may feel for ever.
22 And it came to pass after these things,
that all the people, after the victory, came to Jerusalem to adore the Lord:
and as soon as they were purified, they all offered holocausts, and vows, and
their promises.
23 And Judith offered for an anathema of
oblivion all the arms of Holofernes, which the
people gave her, and the canopy that she had taken away out of his chamber.
24 And the people were joyful in the sight of
the sanctuary, and for three months the joy of this victory was celebrated
with Judith.
25 And after those days every man returned to
his house, and Judith was made great in Bethulia,
and she was most renowned in all the land of Israel.
26 And chastity was joined to her virtue, so
that she knew no man all the days of her life, after the death of Manasses her husband.
27 And on festival days she came forth with
great glory.
28 And she abode in her husband's house a
hundred and five years, and made her handmaid free, and she died, and was
buried with her husband in Bethulia.
29 And all the people mourned for seven days.
30 And all the time of her life there was none
that troubled Israel, nor many years after her death.
31 But the day of the festivity of this
victory is received by the Hebrews in the number of holy days, and is
religiously observed by the Jews from that time until this day.
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1- حينئذ انشدت يهوديت هذا
النشيد للرب فقالت.
2- سبحوا الرب بالدفوف رنموا
للرب على الصنوج انشدوا له انشادا جديدا عظموه و ادعوا باسمه.
3- الرب يمحق الحروب الرب اسمه.
4- جعل معسكره في وسط شعبه
لينقذنا من ايدي جميع اعدائنا.
5- اتى اشور من الجبال الشمالية اتى في كثرة
قوته فسدت كثرته الاودية و خيوله غطت الوهاد.
6- قال انه سيحرق تخومي و يقتل فتياني بالسيف
و يجعل اطفالي غنيمة و ابكاري سبيا.
7- الرب القدير ضربه و اسلمه الى يد امراة
فطعنته.
8- ان جبارهم لم يسقط بايدي الشبان و لم يبطش
به بنو طيطان و لا جبابرة طوال تعرضوا له بل يهوديت ابنة مراري بجمال وجهها
اهلكته.
9- نزعت ثياب ارمالها و تردت بثياب فرحها
لابتهاج بني اسرائيل.
10- دهنت وجهها بالطيب و ضمت ضفائرها بالتاج و
لبست حللها الفاخرة لتفتنه.
11- بهاء حذائها خطف ابصاره و جمالها اسر نفسه
فقطعت بالخنجر عنقه.
12- ارتاعت فارس من ثباتها و الماديون من
جراتها.
13- حينئذ اعولت محلة الاشوريين عندما ظهر
متواضعي ملتهبين من العطش.
14- بنو الجواري اثخنوهم و قتلوهم كانهم صبية
منهزمون فهلكوا في القتال بين يدي الرب الهي.
15- فلنسبح الرب تسبيحا و نرنم
نشيدا جديدا لالهنا.
16- ايها الرب ادوناي انك عظيم شهير بجبروتك و
لا يقوى عليك احد.
17- اياك فلتعبد خليقتك باسرها لانك انت قلت
فكانوا ارسلت روحك فخلقوا و ليس من يقاوم كلمتك.
18- تهتز الجبال من اساسها مع المياه و الصخور كالشمع تذوب امام وجهك.
19- و الذين يتقونك يكونون اعزة عندك في كل
شيء.
20- الويل للامة القائمة على
شعبي الرب القدير ينتقم منهم و في يوم الدينونة يفتقدهم.
21- يجعل لحومهم للنار و الدود لكي يحترقوا و
يتالموا الى الابد.
22- و كان بعد هذا ان جميع الشعب بعد غلبتهم
جاءوا الى اورشليم ليسجدوا للرب و لما تطهروا قدموا جميعهم محرقاتهم و نذورهم و
اوعادهم.
23- و يهوديت ايضا قدمت جميع ادوات حرب
اليفانا التي اعطاها لها الشعب و الخيمة التي اخذتها من سريره ابسال نسيان.
24- و كان الشعب مسرورين بمشاهدة المقدسات و
عيدوا لفرح هذه الغلبة مع يهوديت ثلاثة اشهر.
25- و بعد تلك الايام رجع كل
واحد الى بيته و عظمت يهوديت في بيت فلوى جدا و كانت اجل من في جميع ارض
اسرائيل.
26- و كان فيها العفاف مقرونا بالشجاعة و لم
تعد تعرف رجلا كل ايام حياتها منذ وفاة منسى بعلها.
27- و كانت في الاعياد تظهر بمجد
عظيم.
28- و بقيت في بيت بعلها مئة و
خمس سنين و اعتقت وصيفتها و توفيت و دفنت مع بعلها في بيت فلوى.
29- فناح عليها جميع الشعب سبعة ايام.
30- و لم يكن مدة حياتها كلها من
يقلق اسرائيل و لا بعد موتها سنين كثيرة.
31- و احصي يوم هذه الغلبة عند العبرانيين في
عداد الايام المقدسة و اليهود يعيدونه منذ ذلك الوقت الى يومنا هذا
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