27
Who, when he heard thereof, was confounded and discouraged, because neither such things as he would were done unto Israel, nor such things as the king commanded him were come to pass.
28
The next year therefore following Lysias gathered together threescore thousand choice men of foot, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them.
29
So they came into Idumea, and pitched their tents at Bethsura, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.
30
And when he saw that mighty army, he prayed and said, Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst quell the violence of the mighty man by the hand of thy servant David, and gavest the host of strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and his armourbearer;
31
Shut up this army in the hand of thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their power and horsemen:
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.