Iudith 3

VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Tunc miserunt legatos suos universarum urbium ac provinciarum reges ac principes, Syriæ scilicet Mesopotamiæ, et Syriæ Sobal, et Libyæ, atque Ciliciæ : qui venientes ad Holofernem, dixerunt :	1 They therefore sent envoys to him to sue for peace, to say,
2 Desinat indignatio tua circa nos : melius est enim ut viventes serviamus Nabuchodonosor regi magno, et subditi simus tibi, quam morientes cum interitu nostro ipsi servitutis nostræ damna patiamur.	2 'We are servants of the great King Nebuchadnezzar; we lie prostrate before you. Treat us as you thinkfit.
3 Omnis civitas nostra, omnisque possessio, omnes montes, et colles, et campi, et armenta boum, gregesque ovium, et caprarum, equorumque et camelorum, et universæ facultates nostræ atque familiæ, in conspectu tuo sunt :	3 Our cattle-farms, al our land, al our wheat fields, our flocks and herds, all the sheep-folds in ourencampments are at your disposal. Do with them as you please.
4 sint omnia nostra sub lege tua.	4 Our towns and their inhabitants too are at your service; go and treat them as you think fit.'
5 Nos, et filii nostri, servi tui sumus.	5 These men came to Holofernes and delivered the message as above.
6 Veni nobis pacificus dominus, et utere servitio nostro, sicut placuerit tibi.	6 He then made his way down to the coast with his army and stationed garrisons in al the fortified towns,levying outstanding men there as auxiliaries.
7 Tunc descendit de montibus cum equitibus in virtute magna, et obtinuit omnem civitatem, et omnem inhabitantem terram.	7 The people of these cities and of al the other towns in the neighbourhood welcomed him, wearinggarlands and dancing to the sound of tambourines.
8 De universis autem urbibus assumpsit sibi auxiliarios viros fortes, et electos ad bellum.	8 But he demolished their shrines and cut down their sacred trees, carrying out his commission to destroyal local gods so that the nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar alone and people of every language andnationality should hail him as a god.
9 Tantusque metus provinciis illis incubuit, ut universarum urbium habitatores principes et honorati simul cum populis exirent obviam venienti,	9 Thus he reached the edge of Esdraelon, in the neighbourhood of Dothan, a vil age facing the great ridgeof Judaea.
10 excipientes eum cum coronis et lampadibus, ducentes choros in tympanis et tibiis.	10 He pitched camp between Geba and Scythopolis and stayed there a ful month to re-provision hisforces.
11 Nec ista tamen facientes, ferocitatem ejus pectoris mitigare potuerunt :
12 nam et civitates eorum destruxit, et lucos eorum excidit.
13 Præceperat enim illi Nabuchodonosor rex, ut omnes deos terræ exterminaret, videlicet ut ipse solus diceretur deus ab his nationibus quæ potuissent Holofernis potentia subjugari.
14 Pertransiens autem Syriam Sobal, et omnem Apameam, omnemque Mesopotamiam, venit ad Idumæos in terram Gabaa,
15 accepitque civitates eorum, et sedit ibi per triginta dies, in quibus diebus adunari præcepit universum exercitum virtutis suæ.