1And when the tumult of men that were about the council was ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Assur said to Achior and all the Moabites before all the company of other nations,
2And who are you, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that you have prophesied against us as to day, and have said, that we should not make war with the people of Yashar'el (Israel), because their Elohim (God) will defend them? and who is Yahuah (God) but Nabuchodonosor?
3He will send his power, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their Elohim (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 shall 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, says king Nabuchodonosor, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words shall be in vain.
5And you, Achior, an hireling of Ammon, which have spoken these words in the day of your iniquity, shall see my face no more from this day, until I take vengeance of this nation that came out of Egypt.
6And then shall the sword of my army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through your sides, and you shall fall among their slain, when I return.
7Now therefore my servants shall bring you back into the hill country, and shall set you in one of the cities of the passages:
8And you shall not perish, till you be destroyed with them.