31
So do thou hem in this army by the hand of thy people Israel, and let them be ashamed of their troops and their cavalry.
32
Fill them with cowardice; melt the boldness of their strength; let them tremble in their destruction.
33
Strike them down with the sword of those who love thee, and let all who know thy name praise thee with hymns."
34
Then both sides attacked, and there fell of the army of Lysias five thousand men; they fell in action.
35
And when Lysias saw the rout of his troops and observed the boldness which inspired those of Judas, and how ready they were either to live or to die nobly, he departed to Antioch and enlisted mercenaries, to invade Judea again with an even larger army.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.