Giuditta 5

NOVA VULGATA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Et renuntiatum est Holoferni principi militiae virtutis Assyriae quoniamfilii Israel praeparaverant se ad pugnam et transitus montanae concluserant etmuris cinxerant omnem verticem montis excelsi et posuerant in campisoffendicula.	1 And it was told Holofernes the general of the army of the Assyrians, that the children of Israel prepared themselves to resist, and had shut up the ways of the mountains.
2 Et iratus est iracundia valde et convocavit omnes principes Moabet duces Ammon et omnes magistratus maritimae	2 And he was transported with exceeding great fury and indignation, and he called all the princes of Moab and the leaders of Amman.
3 et dixit eis: “ Renuntiatemihi, filii Chanaan: Quis est iste populus, qui sedet in montanis? Quae suntautem, quas inhabitant, civitates, et quae est multitudo virtutis eorum? Et inquo est potestas et fortitudo eorum, et quis praeest super eos rex, dux militiaeeorum?	3 And he said to them: Tell me what is this people that besetteth the mountains: or what are their cities, and of what sort, and how great: also what is their power, or what is their multitude: or who is the king over their warfare:
4 Et quare terga verterunt, ne venirent in obviam mihi prae omnibus, quiinhabitant ad occasum? ”.	4 And why they above all that dwell in the east, have despised us, and have not come out to meet us, that they might receive us with peace?
5 Et dixit ad eum Achior dux filiorum Ammon: “Audiat dominus meus verbum ex ore servi tui, et referam tibi veritatem de populoisto, qui inhabitat montana ista iuxta te, et non exibit mendacium ex ore servitui.	5 Then Achior captain of all the children of Ammon answering, said: If thou vouch safe, my lord, to hear, I will tell the truth in thy sight concerning this people, that dwelleth in the mountains, and there shall not a false word come out of my mouth.
6 Populus hic est ex progenie Chaldaeorum	6 This people is of the offspring of the Chaldeans.
7 et inhabitaverunt primum inMesopotamia, quoniam noluerunt sequi deos patrum suorum, qui fuerunt in terraChaldaeorum praeclari.	7 They dwelt first in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, who were in the land of the Chaldeans.
8 Et declinaverunt de via parentum suorum et adoraveruntDeum caeli, Deum, quem cognoverunt; et eiecerunt eos a facie deorum suorum, etfugerunt in Mesopotamiam et inhabitaverunt ibi dies multos.	8 Wherefore forsaking the ceremonies of their fathers, which consisted in the worship of many gods,
9 Et dixit Deuseorum, ut exirent de peregrinatione ipsorum et irent in terram Chanaan. Etinhabitaverunt ibi et repleti sunt auro et argento et pecoribus multis valde.	9 They worshipped one God of heaven, who also commanded them to depart from thence, and to dwell in Charan. And when there was a famine over all the land, they went down into Egypt, and there for four hundred years were so multiplied, that the army of them could not be numbered.
10 Et descenderunt in Aegyptum — cooperuerat enim fames faciem terrae Chanaan —et commorati sunt ibi, usquedum enutriti sunt et facti sunt ibi in multitudinemmagnam, nec erat numerus generis eorum.	10 And when the king of Egypt oppressed them, and made slaves of them to labour in clay and brick, in the building of his cities, they cried to their Lord, and he struck the whole land of Egypt with divers plagues.
11 Et insurrexerunt super eos Aegyptiiet circumvenerunt eos in luto et latere, humiliaverunt eos et posuerunt eos inservos.	11 And when the Egyptians had cast them out from them, and the plague had ceased from them, and they had a mind to take them again, and bring them back to their service,
12 Et clamaverunt ad Deum suum, et percussit totam terram Aegyptiplagis, in quibus non erat medicina, et eiecerunt eos Aegyptii a facie sua.	12 The God of heaven opened the sea to them in their flight, so that the waters were made to stand firm as a wall on either side, and they walked through the bottom of the sea and passed it dry foot.
13 Et exsiccavit Deus Rubrum mare ante eos	13 And when an innumerable army of the Egyptians pursued after them in that place, they were so overwhelmed with the waters, that there was not one left, to tell what had happened to posterity.
14 et eduxit eos in viam Sinai etCadesbarne. Et eiecerunt omnes inhabitantes in eremo	14 And after they came out of the Red Sea, they abode in the deserts of mount Sina, in which never man could dwell, or son of man rested.
15 et habitaverunt in terraAmorraeorum et omnes Hesebonitas exstirpaverunt in virtute sua. Et transeuntesIordanem possederunt totam montanam	15 There bitter fountains were made sweet for them to drink, and for forty years they received food from heaven.
16 et eiecerunt a facie sua Chananaeum etPherezaeum et Iebusaeum et Sichem et omnes Gergesaeos et habitaverunt in eadiebus multis.	16 Wheresoever they went in without bow and arrow, and without shield and sword, their God fought for them and overcame.
17 Et, usquedum non peccarent in conspectu Dei sui, erant cumipsis bona, quia Deus odiens iniquitatem cum ipsis est.	17 And there was no one that triumphed over this people, but when they departed from the worship of the Lord their God.
18 Sed, cum recesserunta via, quam disposuerat illis, exterminati sunt in bellis multis multum valde etcaptivi ducti sunt in terram non suam, et templum Dei eorum devenit ad solum, etcivitates eorum comprehensae sunt ab adversariis.	18 But as often as beside their own God, they worshipped any other, they were given to spoil, and to the sword, and to reproach.
19 Et nunc revertentes ad Deumsuum ascenderunt a dispersione, qua dispersi fuerant, et possederunt Ierusalem,ubi sanctuarium eorum est, et inhabitaverunt in montana, quia erat deserta.	19 And as often as they were penitent for having revolted from the worship of their God, the God of heaven gave them power to resist.
20 Et nunc, dominator domine, siquidem est ignorantia in populo isto, et peccant inDeum suum, inspiciemus quoniam est in illis offendiculum hoc et ascendemus etexpugnabimus eos;	20 So they overthrew the king of the Chanaanites, and of the Jebusites, and of the Pherezites, and of the Hethites, and of the Hevites, and of the Amorrhites, and all the mighty ones in Hesebon, and they possessed their lands, and their cities:
21 si autem non est iniquitas in ipsa gente, transeat dominusmeus, ne forte protegat eos Dominus eorum et Deus eorum, et erimus inimproperium coram omni terra ”.	21 And as long as they sinned not in the sight of their God, it was well with them: for their God hateth iniquity.
22 Et factum est, ut desiit loqui Achior verbahaec, murmuravit omnis populus, qui erat in circuitu tabernaculi. Et dixeruntmagnates Holoferni et omnes, qui habitabant maritimam et Moab, ut configerenteum:	22 And even some years ago when they had revolted from the way which God had given them to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by many nations, and very many of them were led away captive into a strange land.
23 “ Non enim timebimus a filiis Israel; ecce enim populus, in quo nonest virtus neque potestas in pugnam validam.	23 But of late returning to the Lord their God, from the different places wherein they were scattered, they are come together and are gone up into all these mountains, and possess Jerusalem again, where their holies are
24 Propter hoc ascendemus, et eruntin escam militiae tuae, dominator Holofernes ”.	24 Now therefore, my lord, search if there be any iniquity of theirs in the sight of their God: let us go up to them, because their God will surely deliver them to thee, and they shall be brought under the yoke of thy power:
	25 But if there be no offense of this people in the sight of their God, we can not resist them, because their God will defend them: and we shall be a reproach to the whole earth.
	26 And it came to pass, when Achior had ceased to speak these words, all the great men of Holofernes were angry, and they had a mind to kill him, saying to each other:
	27 Who is this, that saith the children of Israel can resist king Nabuchodonosor, and his armies, men unarmed, and without force, and without skill in the art of war?
	28 That Achior therefore may know that he deceiveth us, let us go up into the mountains: and when the bravest of them shall be taken, then shall he with them be stabbed with the sword:
	29 That every nation may know that Nabuchodonosor is god of the earth, and besides him there is no other.