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Page 17
16:11. Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty made his soul her
captive, with a sword she cut off his head.
16:12. The Persians quaked at her constancy, and the Medes at her
boldness.
16:13. Then the camp of the Assyrians howled, when my lowly ones
appeared, parched with thirst.
16:14. 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.
16:15. Let us sing a hymn to the Lord, let us sing a new hymn to our
God.
16:16. O Adonai, Lord, great art thou, and glorious in thy power, and no
one can overcome thee.
16:17. 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.
16:18. The mountains shall be moved from the foundations with the
waters: the rocks shall melt as wax before thy face.
16:19. But they that fear thee, shall be great with thee in all things.
16:20. 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.
16:21. For he will give fire, and worms into their flesh, that they may
burn, and may feel for ever.
16:22. 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.
16:23. 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.
An anathema of oblivion... That is, a gift or offering made to God, by
way of an everlasting monument, to prevent the oblivion or forgetting so
great a benefit.
16:24. And the people were joyful in the sight of the sanctuary, and for
three months the joy of this victory was celebrated with Judith.
16:25. 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.
16:26. 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.
16:27. And on festival days she came forth with great glory.
16:28. 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.
16:29. And all the people mourned for seven days.
16:30. And all the time of her life there was none that troubled Israel,
nor many years after her death.
16:31. 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.
*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 18 ***
*********** This file should be named drb1810.txt or drb1810.zip ***********
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