Judith 3 Clementine Vulgate
1 Tunc miserunt legatos suos universarum urbium ac provinciarum reges ac principes, Syriæ scilicet Mesopotamiæ, et Syriæ Sobal, et Libyæ, atque Ciliciæ: qui venientes ad Holofernem, dixerunt:
1 And they sent to him messengers with words of peace, saying,
2 Desinat indignatio tua circa nos: melius est enim ut viventes serviamus Nabuchodonosor regi magno, et subditi simus tibi, quam morientes cum interitu nostro ipsi servitutis nostræ damna patiamur.
2 “Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the great king lie before you. Use us as it is pleasing in your sight.
3 Omnis civitas nostra, omnisque possessio, omnes montes, et colles, et campi, et armenta boum, gregesque ovium, et caprarum, equorumque et camelorum, et universæ facultates nostræ atque familiæ, in conspectu tuo sunt:
3 Behold, our dwellings, and all our country, and all our fields of wheat, and our flocks and herds, and all the sheepfolds of our tents, lie before your face. Use them as it may please you.
4 sint omnia nostra sub lege tua.
4 Behold, even our cities and those who dwell in them are your servants. Come and deal with them as it is good in your eyes.”
5 Nos, et filii nostri, servi tui sumus.
5 So the men came to Holofernes, and declared to him according to these words.
6 Veni nobis pacificus dominus, et utere servitio nostro, sicut placuerit tibi.
6 He came down toward the sea coast, he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for allies.
7 Tunc descendit de montibus cum equitibus in virtute magna, et obtinuit omnem civitatem, et omnem inhabitantem terram.
7 They received him, they and all the country round about them, with garlands and dances and timbrels.
8 De universis autem urbibus assumpsit sibi auxiliarios viros fortes, et electos ad bellum.
8 He cast down all their borders, and cut down their sacred groves. It had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, that all the nations would worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all their tongues and their tribes would call upon him as a god.
9 Tantusque metus provinciis illis incubuit, ut universarum urbium habitatores principes et honorati simul cum populis exirent obviam venienti,
9 Then he came toward Esdraelon near to Dotaea, which is opposite the great ridge of Judea.
10 excipientes eum cum coronis et lampadibus, ducentes choros in tympanis et tibiis.
10 He encamped between Geba and Scythopolis. He was there a whole month, that he might gather together all the baggage of his army.
11 Nec ista tamen facientes, ferocitatem ejus pectoris mitigare potuerunt:
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12 nam et civitates eorum destruxit, et lucos eorum excidit.
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13 Præceperat enim illi Nabuchodonosor rex, ut omnes deos terræ exterminaret, videlicet ut ipse solus diceretur deus ab his nationibus quæ potuissent Holofernis potentia subjugari.
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14 Pertransiens autem Syriam Sobal, et omnem Apameam, omnemque Mesopotamiam, venit ad Idumæos in terram Gabaa,
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15 accepitque civitates eorum, et sedit ibi per triginta dies, in quibus diebus adunari præcepit universum exercitum virtutis suæ.
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