Saturday Night Worship 08/29/26- Offer to Him a psalm of praise, exalt Him and invoke his name!

Chapter 16 from the Book of Judith in the Apocrypha 1 “Break into song to my God with tambourines, sing to the Lord with cymbals. Offer to him a psalm of praise, exalt him and invoke his name. 2 For the Lord is a God who crushes warfare and establishes his camp in the midst of his people; he delivered me from the hands of my oppressors. 3 “The Assyrian descended from the mountains of the north, with myriads of his warriors he came. Their troops choked the valleys and their cavalry covered the hills. 4 He threatened to set my country aflame and put my young men to the sword, dash my infants to the ground, seize my children as booty, and carry off my virgins as spoil. 5 “But the Lord Almighty has thwarted them by the hand of a woman. 6 For their mighty one was not brought low by young men; no titans[h] struck him down, nor did tall giants assault him. But Judith, the daughter of Merari, overcame him by the beauty of her face. 7 She laid aside her widow’s garb to raise up the oppressed in Israel. She anointed her face with perfume, 8 bound up her hair with a fillet, and donned a linen gown to beguile him. 9 Her sandal attracted his gaze, her beauty captivated his mind, and the sword cut through his neck. 10 “The Persians quaked at her audacity, the Medes cowered at her daring. 11 When my lowly ones shouted, they were terrified; when my weak ones cried out, they trembled, and when they raised their voices, the enemy took to flight. 12 The sons of slave girls ran them through and wounded them like the children of deserters; they perished before the army of my Lord. 13 “I will sing a new hymn to my God. O Lord, you are great and glorious, wonderful in strength, invincible. 14 Let all your creatures serve you, for you spoke and they were made. You sent forth your spirit and they were created; no one can resist your voice. 15 The mountains are shaken to their foundations; at your glance the rocks melt like wax. “But to those who fear you you still show compassion. 16 The fragrant offering of a sacrifice is a small thing, as is the fat of all burnt offerings in your sight, but whoever fears the Lord is great forever. 17 “Woe to the nations that rise up against my people. The Lord Almighty will punish them on the day of judgment. He will send fire and worms into their flesh; they shall weep with pain forever.