1.荷罗孚尼对她说，你这个女人，可以放心，我从来没有害过任何愿意侍奉天下万国之王尼布甲尼撒的人。Then Holofer′nes said to her, “Take courage, woman, and do not be afraid in your heart, for I have never hurt any one who chose to serve Nebuchadnez′zar, the king of all the earth.
2.即使到现在，如果住在山地的你们百姓没有轻视我，我也绝不会对他们举起我的枪，但他们却把所有这些祸害都招致在自己身上。And even now, if your people who live in the hill country had not slighted me, I would never have lifted my spear against them; but they have brought all this on themselves.
3.现在告诉我，你为什么逃离他们而来到我们这里——既然你已经到了安全的地方。And now tell me why you have fled from them and have come over to us—since you have come to safety.
4.你要勇敢，你今晚和从今以后都会平安无事，没有人会伤害你，大家都会像对待我主尼布甲尼撒王的仆人一样善待你。Have courage; you will live, tonight and from now on. No one will hurt you, but all will treat you well, as they do the servants of my lord King Nebuchadnez′zar.”
5.犹滴解释她的到来 犹滴回答他说，愿仆人的话蒙主的悦纳，愿婢女在主面前说话，今夜婢女必不对主说一句假话。Judith Explains Her Presence Judith replied to him, “Accept the words of your servant, and let your maidservant speak in your presence, and I will tell nothing false to my lord this night.
6.你若遵行你使女的话，神必成就事在你手中，我的主也必不失去所要成就的目的。And if you follow out the words of your maidservant, God will accomplish something through you, and my lord will not fail to achieve his purposes.
7.尼布甲尼撒这全地的王是活的，他的权柄也长存，他曾派你管理一切有生命的灵，不仅人因为你而侍奉他，连田野的走兽、牲畜和空中的鸟，也都因你的权柄在尼布甲尼撒和他全家面前得以生存。Nebuchadnez′zar the king of the whole earth lives, and as his power endures, who had sent you to direct every living soul, not only do men serve him because of you, but also the beasts of the field and the cattle and the birds of the air will live by your power under Nebuchadnez′zar and all his house.
8.因为我们听说过你们的智慧和才能，且全世界都在传说你们是全国最好的一个人，完全通晓并且在军事战略上非常出色。For we have heard of your wisdom and skill, and it is reported throughout the whole world that you are the one good man in the whole kingdom, thoroughly informed and marvelous in military strategy.
9.“至于亚希多说在你们议会上所说的话，我们已经听见了，因为伯图利亚的人饶恕了他，他把他对你们说的一切都告诉了他们。“Now as for the things Ach′ior said in your council, we have heard his words, for the men of Bethu′lia spared him and he told them all he had said to you.
10.因此，我的主我的君王，不要轻视他所说的话，要放在心上，因为这是真的：我们的国家不会受到惩罚，刀剑也不能战胜他们，除非他们得罪了他们的神。Therefore, my lord and master, do not disregard what he said, but keep it in your mind, for it is true: our nation cannot be punished, nor can the sword prevail against them, unless they sin against their God.
11.现在，为了不让我的主失败而使他的计划落空，他们必然会死去，因为他们犯了罪，行了使他们的神发怒的事，激怒了神。“And now, in order that my lord may not be defeated and his purpose frustrated, death will fall upon them, for a sin has overtaken them by which they are about to provoke their God to anger when they do what is wrong.
12.由于他们的食物已经耗尽，水也几乎用完了，他们计划杀死自己的牛，并决心吃神的律法所禁止他们吃的所有东西。Since their food supply is exhausted and their water has almost given out, they have planned to kill their cattle and have determined to use all that God by his laws has forbidden them to eat.
13.他们已经决定占用那供给祭司在耶路撒冷、我们神面前侍奉的 Grain 和酒、油的初熟和十分之一的物件，虽然这些东西是他们已经分别为圣并且供给祭司的，按照律法，百姓不准用手碰这些东西。They have decided to consume the first fruits of the grain and the tithes of the wine and oil, which they had consecrated and set aside for the priests who minister in the presence of our God at Jerusalem—although it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch these things with their hands.
14.他们派人到耶路撒冷去，因为即使住在那里的百姓也这样做，为了从议会得到允许而回来。They have sent men to Jerusalem, because even the people living there have been doing this, to bring back to them permission from the senate.
15.当这话传到他们那里，他们行了这事，就在那日他们必交在你手中，使他们灭亡。When the word reaches them and they proceed to do this, on that very day they will be handed over to you to be destroyed.
16.因此，我作你的仆人，一旦知道这一切，就逃避他们；神差我到你们这里，要与你们共同完成那些使全世界所有听见的人惊奇的事。“Therefore, when I, your servant, learned all this, I fled from them; and God has sent me to accomplish with you things that will astonish the whole world, as many as shall hear about them.
17.因为你的仆人敬畏神，昼夜侍奉天上的神，所以我主，我要与你同住，每晚你的仆人都要到谷中，祷告神，神会告诉我他们什么时候犯了罪。For your servant is religious, and serves the God of heaven day and night; therefore, my lord, I will remain with you, and every night your servant will go out into the valley, and I will pray to God and he will tell me when they have committed their sins.
18.我会来告诉你，你就可以带领你的全军出战，他们中没有一个人能在你面前站立得住。And I will come and tell you, and then you shall go out with your whole army, and not one of them will withstand you.
19.然后我会带领你穿过犹大中间，直到你到达耶路撒冷，我会在其中间为你建立你的宝座，你将像没有牧人的羊一样引领他们，连一只狗都不敢开口咆哮你，因为这事已经被我预知，我已经被告知，并被派来告诉你。Then I will lead you through the middle of Judea, till you come to Jerusalem; and I will set your throne in the midst of it; and you will lead them like sheep that have no shepherd, and not a dog will so much as open its mouth to growl at you. For this has been told me, by my foreknowledge; it was announced to me, and I was sent to tell you.”
20.她的话得到了荷罗孚尼和他所有仆人的喜爱，他们都对她的智慧感到惊奇，并且说，Her words pleased Holofer′nes and all his servants, and they marveled at her wisdom and said,
21.“从地极到地极，没有一个女人能与她相比，无论是容貌还是言语的智慧！”“There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, either for beauty of face or wisdom of speech!”
22.荷罗孚尼对她说，神已将你送到我们前面，给我们的手增加力量，并要对那些轻视我主的人施行报复。And Holofer′nes said to her, “God has done well to send you before the people, to lend strength to our hands and to bring destruction upon those who have slighted my lord.
23.你不仅外貌美丽，而且言语智慧，如果你按所说的去做，你的神必成为我的神，你将住在尼布甲尼撒王的宫中，在全世界闻名。You are not only beautiful in appearance, but wise in speech; and if you do as you have said, your God shall be my God, and you shall live in the house of King Nebuchadnez′zar and be renowned throughout the whole world.”