Judith 5:21-23
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
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.
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