And Judith began to sing this thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang with loud voices this song of praise.

2 And Judith said,

3 For the Lord is the God that breaketh the battles:

4 Asshur came out of the mountains from the north,

5 He said that he would burn up my borders,

6 The Almighty Lord brought them to nought by the hand of a woman.

7 For their mighty one did not fall by young men,

8 For she put off the apparel of her widowhood

9 Her sandal ravished his eye,

10 The Persians quaked at her daring,

11 Then my lowly ones shouted aloud,

12 The sons of damsels pierced them through,

13 I will sing unto my God a new song:

14 Let all thy creation serve thee:

15 For the mountains shall be moved from their foundations with the waters,

16 For all sacrifice is little for a sweet savor,

17 Woe to the nations that rise up against my race:

18 Now when they came to Jerusalem, they worshiped God; and when the people were purified, they offered their whole burnt offerings, and their freewill offerings, and their gifts.

19 And Judith dedicated all the stuff of Holofernes, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken for herself out of his bedchamber, for a gift unto the Lord.

20 And the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for the space of three months, and Judith remained with them.

21 But after these days every one departed to his own inheritance, and Judith went away to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was honorable in her time in all the land.

22 And many desired her, and no man knew her all the days of her life, from the day that Manasseh her husband died and was gathered to his people.

23 And she increased in greatness exceedingly; and she waxed old in her husband’s house, unto a hundred and five years, and let her maid go free: and she died in Bethulia; and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasseh.

24 And the house of Israel mourned for her seven days: and she distributed her goods before she died to all them that were nearest of kin to Manasseh her husband, and to them that were nearest of her own kindred.

25 And there was none that made the children of Israel anymore afraid in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.