Judith 5:21

In context

19And now they have turned back to their God. They have come up out of the scattering where they were scattered, they have taken hold of Jerusalem, where their holy place stands, and they have resettled the hill country, since it was lying empty. 20So now, my master and lord: if there is some fault of ignorance in this people, if they are sinning against their God, and we can see that this stumbling block is among them, then let us march up and make war on them. 21But if their nation is guilty of no lawlessness, then let my lord pass them by — or their Lord and their God will hold his shield over them, and we will be a laughingstock before the whole earth.” 22When Achior had finished saying this, the whole crowd ringing the council tent grumbled, and the grandees of Holofernes, with everyone who lived on the coast and in Moab, said he should be hacked to pieces. 23“We are not going to be afraid of Israelites! Look at them: a people with no army, no power to hold a battle line.