The Book of Judith, Chapter 6 Das Buch Judith, Kapitel 6 The Book of Judith, Chapter 6 O Livro de Judite, Capítulo 6

1 Factum est autem cum cessassent loqui, indignatus Holofernes vehementer, dixit ad Achior : 2 Quoniam prophetasti nobis, dicens quod gens Israël defendatur a Deo suo, ut ostendam tibi quoniam non est deus nisi Nabuchodonosor, 3 cum percusserimus eos omnes, sicut hominem unum, tunc et ipse cum illis Assyriorum gladio interibis, et omnis Israël tecum perditione disperiet : 4 et probabis quoniam Nabuchodonosor dominus sit universæ terræ : tuncque gladius militiæ meæ transiet per latera tua, et confixus cades inter vulneratos Israël, et non respirabis ultra, donec extermineris cum illis. 5 Porro autem si prophetiam tuam veram existimas, non concidat vultus tuus : et pallor qui faciem tuam obtinet abscedat a te, si verba mea hæc putas impleri non posse. 5 Moreover, if you consider your prophecy to be true, do not let your countenance fall: and let the pallor which occupies your face depart from you, if you think that these words of mine cannot be fulfilled. 6 Ut autem noveris quia simul cum illis hæc experieris, ecce ex hac hora illorum populo sociaberis, ut, dum dignas mei gladii pœnas exceperint, ipse simul ultioni subjaceas. 6 But in order that you may know that you will experience these things together with them, behold, from this hour you will be associated with their people, so that, while they have received punishments worthy of my sword, you at the same time will be subjected to vengeance. 7 Tunc Holofernes præcepit servis suis ut comprehenderent Achior, et perducerent eum in Bethuliam, et traderent eum in manus filiorum Israël. 7 Then Holofernes ordered his servants to seize Achior, and bring him to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel. 8 Et accipientes eum servi Holofernis, profecti sunt per campestria : sed cum appropinquassent ad montana, exierunt contra eos fundibularii. 8 And the servants of Holofernes receiving him, set out through the plains: but when they drew near to the mountains, the squires came out against them. 9 Illi autem divertentes a latere montis, ligaverunt Achior ad arborem manibus et pedibus, et sic vinctum restibus dimiserunt eum, et reversi sunt ad dominum suum. 9 But they, having escaped from the side of the mountain, tied Achior to a tree by the hands and feet, and thus bound to the remains they released him, and returned to their master. 10 Porro filii Israël descendentes de Bethulia, venerunt ad eum : quem solventes, duxerunt ad Bethuliam, atque in medium populi illum statuentes, percunctati sunt quid rerum esset quod illum vinctum Assyrii reliquissent. 10 And the children of Israel, coming down from Bethulia, came to him: having freed him, they led him to Bethulia, and placing him in the midst of the people, they inquired what had happened that they had left him bound to the Assyrians.

11 In diebus illis erant illic principes Ozias filius Micha de tribu Simeon, et Charmi, qui et Gothoniel.12 In medio itaque seniorum, et in conspectu omnium, Achior dixit omnia quæ locutus ipse fuerat ab Holoferne interrogatus : et qualiter populus Holofernis voluisset propter hoc verbum interficere eum,13 et quemadmodum ipse Holofernes iratus jusserit eum Israëlitis hac de causa tradi, ut dum vicerit filios Israël, tunc et ipsum Achior diversis jubeat interire suppliciis, propter hoc quod dixisset : Deus cæli defensor eorum est.14 Cumque Achior universa hæc exposuisset, omnis populus cecidit in faciem, adorantes Dominum, et communi lamentatione et fletu unanimes preces suas Domino effuderunt,15 dicentes : Domine Deus cæli et terræ, intuere superbiam eorum, et respice ad nostram humilitatem, et faciem sanctorum tuorum attende, et ostende quoniam non derelinquis præsumentes de te : et præsumentes de se, et de sua virtute gloriantes, humilias.16 Finito itaque fletu, et per totam diem oratione populorum completa, consolati sunt Achior,17 dicentes : Deus patrum nostrorum, cujus tu virtutem prædicasti, ipse tibi hanc dabit vicissitudinem, ut eorum magis tu interitum videas.18 Cum vero Dominus Deus noster dederit hanc libertatem servis suis, sit et tecum Deus in medio nostri : ut sicut placuerit tibi, ita cum tuis omnibus converseris nobiscum.19 Tunc Ozias, finito consilio, suscepit eum in domum suam, et fecit ei cœnam magnam.20 Et vocatis omnibus presbyteris, simul expleto jejunio refecerunt.21 Postea vero convocatus est omnis populus, et per totam noctem intra ecclesiam oraverunt, petentes auxilium a Deo Israël.