Judith 6:1–9

And when the tumult of men that were about the council was ceased, Olofernes the chief captain of the army of Assur said unto Achior and all the ^aMoabites before all the company of other nations,

²And who art thou, Achior, and ^bthe hirelings of Ephraim, that thou hast prophesied amongst us as to day, and hast said, that we should not make war with the people of Israel, ^cbecause their God will defend them? and who is God but Nabuchodonosor? ³He will send his power, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and ^dtheir God shall not deliver them: but we his servants will destroy them as one man; for they are not able to sustain the power of our horses. ⁴For with them we will tread them under foot, and their mountains ^eshall be drunken with their blood, and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able to stand before us, for they shall utterly perish, saith king Nabuchodonosor, lord of all the earth; for he said, None of my words shall be in vain. ⁵And thou, Achior, ^ba hireling of ^fAmmon, which hast spoken these words in the day of thine iniquity, shalt see my face no more from this day, until I take vengeance of this nation ^gthat came out of Egypt. ⁶And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slain, ^hwhen I return. ⁷Now therefore my servants shall bring thee back into the hill country, and shall set thee in one of the cities of ⁱthe passages: ⁸and thou shalt not perish, till thou be destroyed with them. ⁹And if thou persuade thyself in thy mind that they shall not be taken, let not ^kthy countenance fall: I have spoken it, and none of my words shall be in vain.