Judith 16 Clementine Vulgate
1 Tunc cantavit canticum hoc Domino Judith, dicens:
1 And Judith began to sing this song of thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang with loud voices this song of praise.
2 [Incipite Domino in tympanis; cantate Domino in cymbalis; modulamini illi psalmum novum: exaltate, et invocate nomen ejus.
2 Judith said, “Begin a song to my God with timbrels. Sing to my Lord with cymbals. Make melody to him with psalm and praise. Exalt him, and call upon his name.
3 Dominus conterens bella, Dominus nomen est illi.
3 For the Lord is the God that crushes battles. For in his armies in the midst of the people, he delivered me out of the hand of those who persecuted me.
4 Qui posuit castra sua in medio populi sui, ut eriperet nos de manu omnium inimicorum nostrorum.
4 Asshur came out of the mountains from the north. He came with ten thousands of his army. Its multitude stopped the torrents. Their horsemen covered the hills.
5 Venit Assur ex montibus ab aquilone in multitudine fortitudinis suæ: cujus multitudo obturavit torrentes, et equi eorum cooperuerunt valles.
5 He said that he would burn up my borders, kill my young men with the sword, throw my nursing children to the ground, give my infants up as prey, and make my virgins a plunder.
6 Dixit se incensurum fines meos, et juvenes meos occisurum gladio; infantes meos dare in prædam, et virgines in captivitatem.
6 “The Almighty Lord brought them to nothing by the hand of a woman.
7 Dominus autem omnipotens nocuit eum, et tradidit eum in manus feminæ, et confodit eum.
7 For their mighty one didn’t fall by young men, neither did sons of the Titans strike him. Tall giants didn’t attack him, but Judith the daughter of Merari made him weak with the beauty of her countenance.
8 Non enim cecidit potens eorum a juvenibus, nec filii Titan percusserunt eum, nec excelsi gigantes opposuerunt se illi: sed Judith filia Merari in specie faciei suæ dissolvit eum.
8 “For she put off the apparel of her widowhood for the exaltation of those who were distressed in Israel. She anointed her face with ointment, bound her hair in a tiara, and took a linen garment to deceive him.
9 Exuit enim se vestimento viduitatis, et induit se vestimento lætitiæ in exultatione filiorum Israël.
9 Her sandal ravished his eye. Her beauty took his soul prisoner. The sword passed through his neck.
10 Unxit faciem suam unguento, et colligavit cincinnos suos mitra; accepit stolam novem ad decipiendum illum.
10 “The Persians quaked at her daring. The Medes were daunted at her boldness.
11 Sandalia ejus rapuerunt oculos ejus; pulchritudo ejus captivam fecit animam ejus: amputavit pugione cervicem ejus.
11 “Then my lowly ones shouted aloud. My oppressed people were terrified and trembled for fear. They lifted up their voices and the enemy fled.
12 Horruerunt Persæ constantiam ejus, et Medi audaciam ejus.
12 The children of slave-girls pierced them through, and wounded them as fugitives’ children. They perished by the army of my Lord.
13 Tunc ululaverunt castra Assyriorum, quando apparuerunt humiles mei, arescentes in siti.
13 “I will sing to my God a new song: O Lord, you are great and glorious, marvelous in strength, invincible.
14 Filii puellarum compunxerunt eos, et sicut pueros fugientes occiderunt eos: perierunt in prælio a facie Domini Dei mei.
14 Let all your creation serve you; for you spoke, and they were made. You sent out your spirit, and it built them. There is no one who can resist your voice.
15 Hymnum cantemus Domino; hymnum novum cantemus Deo nostro.
15 For the mountains will be moved from their foundations with the waters, and the rocks will melt as wax at your presence: But you are yet merciful to those who fear you.
16 Adonai Domine, magnus es tu, et præclarus in virtute tua: et quem superare nemo potest.
16 For all sacrifice is little for a sweet savor, and all the fat is very little for a whole burnt offering to you; but he who fears the Lord is great continually.
17 Tibi serviat omnis creatura tua, quia dixisti, et facta sunt; misisti spiritum tuum, et creata sunt: et non est qui resistat voci tuæ.
17 “Woe to the nations who rise up against my race! The Lord Almighty will take vengeance on them in the day of judgment and put fire and worms in their flesh; and they will weep and feel their pain forever.”
18 Montes a fundamentis movebuntur cum aquis; petræ, sicut cera, liquescent ante faciem tuam.
18 Now when they came to Jerusalem, they worshiped God. When the people were purified, they offered their whole burnt offerings, their free will offerings, and their gifts.
19 Qui autem timent te, magni erunt apud te per omnia.
19 Judith dedicated all Holofernes’ stuff, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken for herself out of his bedchamber, for a gift to the Lord.
20 Væ genti insurgenti super genus meum: Dominus enim omnipotens vindicabit in eis; in die judicii visitabit illos.
20 And the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for three months, and Judith remained with them.
21 Dabit enim ignem et vermes in carnes eorum, ut urantur et sentiant usque in sempiternum.]
21 After these days, everyone departed to his own inheritance. Judith went away to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was honorable in her time in all the land.
22 Et factum est post hæc, omnis populus post victoriam venit in Jerusalem adorare Dominum: et mox ut purificati sunt, obtulerunt omnes holocausta, et vota, et repromissiones suas.
22 Many desired her, but no man knew her all the days of her life from the day that Manasses her husband died and was gathered to his people.
23 Porro Judith universa vasa bellica Holofernis, quæ dedit illi populus, et conopeum quod ipsa sustulerat de cubili ipsius, obtulit in anathema oblivionis.
23 She increased in greatness exceedingly; and she grew old in her husband’s house, to one hundred five years. She let her maid go free. Then she died in Bethulia. They buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.
24 Erat autem populus jucundus secundum faciem sanctorum: et per tres menses gaudium hujus victoriæ celebratum est cum Judith.
24 The house of Israel mourned for her seven days. She distributed her goods before she died to all those who were nearest of kin to Manasses her husband, and to those who were nearest of her own kindred.
25 Post dies autem illos, unusquisque rediit in domum suam: et Judith magna facta est in Bethulia, et præclarior erat universæ terræ Israël.
25 There was no one who made the children of Israel afraid any more in the days of Judith, nor for a long time after her death.
26 Erat enim virtuti castitas adjuncta, ita ut non cognosceret virum omnibus diebus vitæ suæ, ex quo defunctus est Manasses vir ejus.
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27 Erat autem, diebus festis, procedens cum magna gloria.
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28 Mansit autem in domo viri sui annos centum quinque, et dimisit abram suam liberam: et defuncta est ac sepulta cum viro suo in Bethulia.
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29 Luxitque illam omnis populus diebus septem.
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30 In omni autem spatio vitæ ejus non fuit qui perturbaret Israël, et post mortem ejus annis multis.
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31 Dies autem victoriæ hujus festivitatis ab Hebræis in numero sanctorum dierum accipitur, et colitur a Judæis ex illo tempore usque in præsentem diem.
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