Liber Iudith

Iudith, chapter 16 in the Vulgate version.

There is no KJV of Judith, but it does appear in the Apocrypha, as shown below.

Chapter 16 Vulgate

   1 Dixitque Iudith: "Incipite Deo meo in tym panis, cantate Domino meo in cymbalis, modulamini illi psalmum novum, exaltate et invocate nomen ipsius.
   2 Tu es Deus conterens bella, qui ponis castra in medio populi tui, ut eripias me de manu persequentium me.
   3 Venit Assur a montibus, a borra, venit in milibus virtutum suarum, quorum multitudo obturavit torrentes, et equitatus ipsorum texit colles.
   4 Et dixit incensurum se fines meos et iuvenes meos occisurum gladio et mammantes meos daturum ad solum et infantes meos daturum in partitionem et virgines spoliaturum.
   5 Dominus omnipotens sprevit illos et confudit illos in manu feminae!
   6 Non enim cecidit potens eorum a iuvenibus, nec filii Titanum percusserunt illum, nec alti gigantes superposuerunt se illi, sed Iudith filia Merari in specie faciei suae dissolvit illum.
   7 Dispoliavit enim se stola viduitatis suae in exaltationem dolentium in Israel. Unxit faciem suam unguento
   8 et colligavit capillos suos in mitra et accepit stolam lineam in seductionem eius.
   9 Sandalum eius rapuit oculum ipsius, et species eius captivam fecit animam illius, et transiit gladius cervicem eius.
   10 Horruerunt Persae audaciam eius, et Medi turbati sunt constantia ipsius.
   11 Tunc ululaverunt humiles mei, et exclamaverunt aegrotantes et territi sunt, in altum extulerunt vocem suam et conversi sunt.
   12 Filii puellarum compunxerunt illos et tamquam pueros ultroneos vulnerabant; perierunt a praelio Domini mei.
   13 Cantabo Deo meo hymnum novum: Domine, magnus es tu et clarus, mirabilis in virtute et insuperabilis.
   14 Tibi serviat omnis creatura tua, quoniam dixisti, et facta sunt, misisti spiritum tuum, et aedificata sunt, et non est qui resistat voci tuae.
   15 Montes enim a fundamentis agitabuntur cum aquis, petrae autem a facie tua tamquam cera liquescent. Illis autem, qui timent te, propitius adhuc eris.
   16 Quoniam pusillum omne sacrum ad odorem suavitatis, et minimus omnis adeps in holocaustum tibi. Qui autem timet Dominum, magnus apud eum semper.
   17 Vae gentibus assurgentibus generi meo! Dominus omnipotens vindicabit illos, in die iudicii visitabit eos, ut det ignem et vermes in carnes eorum, et comburentur, ut sentiant usque in aeternum".
   18 Ut autem venerunt in Ierusalem, adoraverunt Deum; et, postquam mundatus est populus, rettulerunt holocaustum Domino et voluntaria sua et munera.
   19 Et attulit Iudith omnia vasa Holofernis, quaecumque dederat ei populus, et conopeum, quod sustulerat de cubiculo ipsius, in consecrationem Domino dedit.
   20 Et populus laetabatur in Ierusalem contra faciem sanctorum per menses tres, et Iudith cum illis mansit.
   21 Post illos autem dies rediit unusquisque in hereditatem suam, et Iudith abiit in Betuliam et demorata est in possessione sua. Et facta est secundum tempus suum clara in omni terra,
   22 et multi concupierunt eam, et non cognovit vir illam omnibus diebus vitae eius, ex qua die mortuus est Manasses maritus illius et appositus est ad populum suum.
   23 Et procedens magna facta est valde et senuit in domo mariti sui Manasses annos centum quinque; et dimisit abram suam liberam. Et mortua est in Betulia, et sepelierunt eam in spelunca.
   24 Et planxit eam omnis Israel diebus septem. Divisitque bona sua, priusquam moreretur, omnibus proximis viri sui Manasses et proximis ex genere suo.
   25 Et non fuit adhuc, qui in timorem mitteret filios Israel in diebus Iudith et post mortem eius diebus multis.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

Apocrypha

   1 Then Judith began to sing this thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang after her this song of praise.
   2 And Judith said, Begin unto my God with timbrels, sing unto my Lord with cymbals: tune unto him a new psalm: exalt him, and call upon his name.
   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.
   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.
   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.
   6 But the Almighty Lord hath disappointed them by the hand of a woman.
   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.
   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.
   9 Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty took his mind prisoner, and the fauchion passed through his neck.
   10 The Persians quaked at her boldness, and the Medes were daunted at her hardiness.
   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.
   12 The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and wounded them as fugatives children: they perished by the battle of the Lord.
   13 I will sing unto the Lord a new song: O Lord, thou art great and glorious, wonderful in strength, and invincible.
   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.
   15 For the mountains shall be moved from their foundations with the waters, the rocks shall melt as wax at thy presence: yet thou art merciful to them that fear thee.
   16 For all sacrifice is too little for a sweet savour unto thee, and all the fat is not sufficient for thy burnt offering: but he that feareth the Lord is great at all times.
   17 Woe to the nations that rise up against my kindred! the Lord Almighty will take vengeance of them in the day of judgment, in putting fire and worms in their flesh; and they shall feel them, and weep for ever.
   18 Now as soon as they entered into Jerusalem, they worshipped the Lord; and as soon as the people were purified, they offered their burnt offerings, and their free offerings, and their gifts.
   19 Judith also dedicated all the stuff of Holofernes, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken out of his bedchamber, for a gift unto the Lord.
   20 So the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for the space of three months and Judith remained with them.
   21 After this time every one returned to his own inheritance, and Judith went to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was in her time honourable in all the country.
   22 And many desired her, but none knew her all the days of her life, after that Manasses her husband was dead, and was gathered to his people.
   23 But she increased more and more in honour, and waxed old in her husbands house, being an hundred and five years old, and made her maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.
   24 And the house of Israel lamented her seven days: and before she died, she did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred to Manasses her husband, and to them that were the nearest of her kindred.
   25 And there was none that made the children of Israel any more afraid in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.