Judith 16:3-14
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3 For God breaketh the battles: for among the camps in the midst of the people he hath delivered me out of the hands of them that persecuted me.
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4 Assur came out of the mountains from the north, he came with ten thousands of his army, the multitude whereof stopped the torrents, and their horsemen have covered the hills.
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5 He bragged that he would burn up my borders, and kill my young men with the sword, and dash the sucking children against the ground, and make mine infants as a prey, and my virgins as a spoil.
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6 But the Almighty Lord hath disappointed them by the hand of a woman.
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7 For the mighty one did not fall by the young men, neither did the sons of the Titans smite him, nor high giants set upon him: but Judith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty of her countenance.
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8 For she put off the garment of her widowhood for the exaltation of those that were oppressed in Israel, and anointed her face with ointment, and bound her hair in a tire, and took a linen garment to deceive him.
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9 Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty took his mind prisoner, and the fauchion passed through his neck.
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10 The Persians quaked at her boldness, and the Medes were daunted at her hardiness.
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11 Then my afflicted shouted for joy, and my weak ones cried aloud; but they were astonished: these lifted up their voices, but they were overthrown.
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12 The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and wounded them as fugatives' children: they perished by the battle of the Lord.
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13 I will sing unto the Lord a new song: O Lord, thou art great and glorious, wonderful in strength, and invincible.
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14 Let all creatures serve thee: for thou spakest, and they were made, thou didst send forth thy spirit, and it created them, and there is none that can resist thy voice.