Good News Translation
We are the descendants of slaves, but our enemies turned and ran; we killed them like runaway slaves. They were destroyed by the army of the Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
Sons of slave-girls pierced them through and wounded them like the children of fugitives; they perished before the army of my Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Though our ancestors were slaves, we, the Lord's mighty army, attacked and killed enemy troops.

New American Bible
“The Persians trembled at her boldness, the Medes were daunted at her daring.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Persians quaked at her constancy, and the Medes at her boldness.

The Persians quaked at her constancy, and the Medes at her boldness.

Judith 16:10
She anointed her face with ointment, and bound up her locks with a crown, she took a new robe to deceive him.

Judith 16:11
Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty made his soul her captive, with a sword she cut off his head.

Judith 16:13
Then the camp of the Assyrians howled, when my lowly ones appeared, parched with thirst.

Judith 16:14
The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and they have killed them like children fleeing away: they perished in battle before the face of the Lord my God.