16:13 I will sing unto the Lord a new song: O Lord, thou art great and
glorious, wonderful in strength, and invincible.
16:14 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.
16:15 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.
16:16 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.
16:17 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.
16:18 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.
16:19 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.
16:20 So the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the
sanctuary for the space of three months and Judith remained with them.
16:21 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.
16:22 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.
16:23 But she increased more and more in honour, and waxed old in her
husband’s 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.
16:24 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.
16:25 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.
The Greek Additions to Esther
[The Rest of the Chapters of the Book of Esther]
10:4 Then Mardocheus said, God hath done these things.
10:5 For I remember a dream which I saw concerning these matters, and
nothing thereof hath failed.
10:6 A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the
sun, and much water: this river is Esther, whom the king married, and
made queen:
10:7 And the two dragons are I and Aman.
10:8 And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the name
of the Jews:
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