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# Judith 3

Judith 3 is chapter 3 of 16 in the Book of Judith. Here are all 15 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Many submit themselves to Holofernes. He destroyeth their cities, and their gods, that Nabuchodonosor only might be called God.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Judith 3 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then the kings as well as the princes of the provinces sent their emissaries from all of the cities: from Syria, particularly Mesopotamia, and Syria Sobal, and Libya as well as Cilicia. These, upon coming to Holofernes, said:
2. “Let your indignation concerning us cease. For it is better for us to live in service to Nebuchadnezzar, the great king, and to become subject to you, rather than to die, even though we may have to suffer our condemnation into the annihilation of slavery.
3. All our cities and all our possessions, all mountains, and hills, and fields, and herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep, and goats, and horses, and camels, and all our resources and families are in your sight.
4. Let all that we have be subject to your law.
5. We, and our sons, are your servants.
6. Come to us as a peaceful lord, and use our service, just as it pleases you.”
7. Then he descended from the mountains with horsemen, in great power, and he took charge of every city and of every inhabitant of the land.
8. And, from all the cities, he took for himself auxiliaries: strong men and well-chosen for war.
9. And such a dread lay upon those provinces, that the leading and honored inhabitants of all the cities, together with the people, went out to meet him at his arrival.
10. They received him with garlands and lamps; they were led by choirs with timbrels and flutes.
11. Yet, not even by doing these things were they able to mitigate the ferocity of his chest.
12. For he both destroyed their cities and cut down their sacred groves.
13. For king Nebuchadnezzar had instructed him to exterminate all the gods of the earth, evidently so that he alone might be called ‘god’ by those nations which were able to be subjugated by the power of Holofernes.
14. But when he had passed through Syria Sobal, and all of Apamea, and all Mesopotamia, he came to the Idumeans in the land of Gibeah.
15. And he took their cities, and he sat there for thirty days, during which days he instructed all the troops of his army to regroup.

## Judith 3 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

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:
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.
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:
4. sint omnia nostra sub lege tua.
5. Nos, et filii nostri, servi tui sumus.
6. Veni nobis pacificus dominus, et utere servitio nostro, sicut placuerit tibi.
7. Tunc descendit de montibus cum equitibus in virtute magna, et obtinuit omnem civitatem, et omnem inhabitantem terram.
8. De universis autem urbibus assumpsit sibi auxiliarios viros fortes, et electos ad bellum.
9. Tantusque metus provinciis illis incubuit, ut universarum urbium habitatores principes et honorati simul cum populis exirent obviam venienti,
10. excipientes eum cum coronis et lampadibus, ducentes choros in tympanis et tibiis.
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.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).