Douay Bible - Judith Chapter 14

Judith 14:1
And Judith said to all the people: Hear me, my brethren, hang ye up this head upon our walls.

Judith 14:2
And as soon as the sun shall rise, let every man take his arms, and rush ye out, not as going down beneath, but as making an assault.

Judith 14:3
Then the watchmen must needs run to awake their prince for the battle.

Judith 14:4
And when the captains of them shall run to the tent of Holofernes, and shall find him without his head wallowing in his blood, fear shall fall upon them.

Judith 14:5
And when you shall know that they are fleeing, go after them securely, for the Lord will destroy them under your feet.

Judith 14:6
Then Achior seeing the power that the God of Israel had wrought, leaving the religion of the gentiles, he believed God, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the people of Israel, with all the succession of his kindred until this present day.

Judith 14:7
And immediately at break of day, they hung up the head of Holofernes upon the walls, and every man took his arms, and they sent out with a great noise and shouting.

Judith 14:8
And the watchmen seeing this, ran to the tent of Holofernes.

Judith 14:9
And they that were in the tent came, and made a noise before the door of the chamber to awake him, endeavoring by art to break his rest, that Holofernes might awake, not by their calling him, but by their noise.

Judith 14:10
For no man durst knock, or open and go into the chamber of the general of the Assyrians.

Judith 14:11
But when his captains and tribunes were come, and all the chiefs of the army of the king of the Assyrians, they said to the chamberlains

Judith 14:12
Go in, and awake him, for the mice coming out of their holes, have presumed to challenge us to fight.

Judith 14:13
Then Vagao going into his chamber, stood before the curtain, and made a clapping with his hands: for he thought that he was sleeping with Judith.

Judith 14:14
But when with hearkening, he perceived no motion of one lying, he came near to the curtain, and lifting it up, and seeing the body of Holofernes, lying upon the ground, without the head, sweltering in his blood, he cried out with a loud voice, with weeping, and rent his garments.

Judith 14:15
And he went into the tent of Judith, and not finding her, he ran out to the people,

Judith 14:16
And said: One Hebrew woman hath made confusion in the house of king Nabuchodonosor: for behold Holofernes lieth upon the ground, and his head is not upon him.

Judith 14:17
Now when the chiefs of the army of the Assyrians had heard this, they all rent their garments, and an intolerable fear and dread fell upon them, and their minds were troubled exceedingly.

Judith 14:18
And there was a very great cry in the midst of their camp.

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