Then Judith sung this canticle to the Lord, saying: 2Begin 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. 3The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord is his name. 4He hath set his camp in the midst of his people, to deliver us from the hand of all our enemies. 5The Assyrian 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. 6He 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. 7But the almighty Lord hath struck him, and hath delivered him into the hands of a woman, and hath slain him. 8For 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. 9For she put off her the garments of widowhood, and put on her the garments of joy, to give joy to the children of Israel. 10She anointed her face with ointment, and bound up her locks with a crown, she took a new robe to deceive him. 11Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty made his soul her captive, with a sword she cut off his head. 12The Persians quaked at her constancy, and the Medes at her boldness. 13Then the camp of the Assyrians howled, when my lowly ones appeared, parched with thirst. 14The 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. 15Let us sing a hymn to the Lord, let us sing a new hymn to our God. 16O Adonai, Lord, great art thou, and glorious in thy power, and no one can overcome thee. 17Let 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.