Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Part 70

Jdt 16:7 For the mighty one did not fall by the young men, neither did the sons of the t.i.tans smite him, nor high giants set upon him: but Judith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty of her countenance.

Jdt 16:8 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.

Jdt 16:9 Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty took his mind prisoner, and the fauchion pa.s.sed through his neck.

Jdt 16:10 The Persians quaked at her boldness, and the Medes were daunted at her hardiness.

Jdt 16:11 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.

Jdt 16:12 The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and wounded them as fugatives' children: they perished by the battle of the Lord.

Jdt 16:13 I will sing unto the Lord a new song: O Lord, thou art great and glorious, wonderful in strength, and invincible.

Jdt 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.

Jdt 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.

Jdt 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.

Jdt 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.

Jdt 16:18 Now as soon as they entered into Jerusalem, they wors.h.i.+pped the Lord; and as soon as the people were purified, they offered their burnt offerings, and their free offerings, and their gifts.

Jdt 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.

Jdt 16:20 So the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for the s.p.a.ce of three months and Judith remained with them.

Jdt 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.

Jdt 16:22 And many desired her, but none knew her all the days of her life, after that Mana.s.ses her husband was dead, and was gathered to his people.

Jdt 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 Mana.s.ses.

Jdt 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 Mana.s.ses her husband, and to them that were the nearest of her kindred.

Jdt 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 Book of Wisdom [The Wisdom of Solomon]

Wis 1:1 Love righteousness, ye that be judges of the earth: think of the Lord with a good (heart,) and in simplicity of heart seek him.

Wis 1:2 For he will be found of them that tempt him not; and sheweth himself unto such as do not distrust him.

Wis 1:3 For froward thoughts separate from G.o.d: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise.

Wis 1:4 For into a malicious soul wisdom shall not enter; nor dwell in the body that is subject unto sin.

Wis 1:5 For the holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and remove from thoughts that are without understanding, and will not abide when unrighteousness cometh in.

Wis 1:6 For wisdom is a loving spirit; and will not acquit a blasphemer of his words: for G.o.d is witness of his reins, and a true beholder of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.

Wis 1:7 For the Spirit of the Lord filleth the world: and that which containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice.

Wis 1:8 Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hid: neither shall vengeance, when it punisheth, pa.s.s by him.

Wis 1:9 For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the unG.o.dly: and the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord for the manifestation of his wicked deeds.

Wis 1:10 For the ear of jealousy heareth all things: and the noise of murmurings is not hid.

Wis 1:11 Therefore beware of murmuring, which is unprofitable; and refrain your tongue from backbiting: for there is no word so secret, that shall go for nought: and the mouth that belieth slayeth the soul.

Wis 1:12 Seek not death in the error of your life: and pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.

Wis 1:13 For G.o.d made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.

Wis 1:14 For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth:

Wis 1:15 (For righteousness is immortal:)

Wis 1:16 But unG.o.dly men with their works and words called it to them: for when they thought to have it their friend, they consumed to nought, and made a covenant with it, because they are worthy to take part with it.

Wis 2:1 For the unG.o.dly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.

Wis 2:2 For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart:

Wis 2:3 Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,

Wis 2:4 And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pa.s.s away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.

Wis 2:5 For our time is a very shadow that pa.s.seth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.

Wis 2:6 Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.

Wis 2:7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pa.s.s by us:

Wis 2:8 Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:

Wis 2:9 Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.

Wis 2:10 Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.

Wis 2:11 Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.

Wis 2:12 Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.