21 For if we are captured, all Judea will be captured and our sanctuary will be plundered; and he will require our blood for profaning it. (WEB) 22 The slaughter of our kindred, the captivity of the land, and the desolation of our inheritance, he will bring on our heads among the Gentiles, wherever we will be in bondage. We will be an offense and a reproach to those who take us for a possession. (WEB) 23 For our bondage will not be ordered to favor; but the Lord our God will turn it to dishonor. (WEB)
Judith 8:21–23
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