The whole people was beside itself. They bowed low in worship before God and said with one voice: “Blessed are you, our God, who on this day have reduced the enemies of your people to nothing.”
In context
15She drew the head out of the satchel, showed it to them, and said: “Here is the head of Holofernes, commander in chief of the forces of Asshur, and here is the canopy he lay under in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him down by a woman’s hand. 16And as the Lord lives, who guarded me on the road I traveled: my face is what deceived him, to his own ruin, and he committed no sin with me, for defilement or for shame.” 17The whole people was beside itself. They bowed low in worship before God and said with one voice: “Blessed are you, our God, who on this day have reduced the enemies of your people to nothing.” 18And Uzziah said to her: “Daughter, blessed are you by the Most High God above every woman on earth, and blessed is the Lord God, maker of the heavens and the earth, who steered you to strike the head of our enemies’ chief. 19Your hope will never leave the hearts of men who remember God’s strength, to the end of the age.