Good News Translation
The people in the towns and in the surrounding countryside welcomed Holofernes by wearing wreaths of flowers and dancing to the beat of drums.

New Revised Standard Version
These people and all in the countryside welcomed him with garlands and dances and tambourines.

Contemporary English Version
The people in these cities and in the surrounding countryside welcomed Holofernes by wearing flowers around their necks and playing tambourines and dancing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then he came down from the mountains with horsemen, in great power, and made himself master of every city, and all the inhabitants of the land.

Then he came down from the mountains with horsemen, in great power, and made himself master of every city, and all the inhabitants of the land.

Judith 3:5
Both we and our children are thy servants.

Judith 3:6
Come to us a peaceable lord, and use our service as it shall please thee,

Judith 3:8
And from all the cities he took auxiliaries valiant men, and chosen for war,

Judith 3:9
And so great a fear lay upon all those provinces, that the inhabitants of all the cities, both princes and nobles, as well as the people, went out to meet him at his coming.