Judith 5:21-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²¹ But if they are not a guilty nation, then let my lord pass them by; for their Lord and God will defend them, and we shall become the laughing-stock of the whole world.’

²² When Achior had finished saying these things, all the people standing around the tent began to complain; Holofernes’ officers and all the inhabitants of the sea coast and Moab insisted that he should be cut to pieces. ²³ They said, ‘We are not afraid of the Israelites; they are a people with no strength or power for making war.