51. For your holy things have been trampled and defiled, and your priests have been in mourning and in humiliation.
52. And behold, the Nations gather together against us, to destroy us. You know what they intend against us.
53. How shall we be able to stand before their face, unless you, O God, assist us?"
54. Then they sounded the trumpets with a loud call.
55. And after this, Judas appointed commanders over the people: over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.
56. And he said to those who were building houses, or who had betrothed wives, who were planting vineyards, or who were terribly afraid, that they should return, each one to his own house, according to the law.