Good News Translation
Everyone, young and old, ran together to the gate. No one could believe that Judith had come back. They opened the gate for her and her slave and welcomed them. Then, when they had lit a fire to give some light and had gathered around the two women,

Contemporary English Version
Then all the people of Bethulia, both young and old, hurried to the gate--no one could believe that Judith had returned safely. They opened the gate and greeted Judith and her servant woman. Someone started a bonfire, and everyone gathered around the two women.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Judith from afar off cried to the watchmen upon the walls: Open the gates for God is with us, who hath shewn his power in Israel.

And Judith from afar off cried to the watchmen upon the walls: Open the gates for God is with us, who hath shewn his power in Israel.

Judith 13:11
And after a while she went out, and delivered the head of Holofernes to her maid, and bade her put it into her wallet.

Judith 13:12
And they two went out according to their custom, as it were to prayer, and they passed the camp, and having compassed the valley, they came to the gate of the city.

Judith 13:14
And it came to pass, when the men had heard her voice, that they called the ancients of the city.

Judith 13:15
And all ran to meet her from the least to the greatest: for they now had no hopes that she would come.