was no way to escape out from among
them.

Jdt 7:20
Thus all the company of Assur remained about them, both their
footmen, chariots, and horsemen, four and thirty days, so that
all their vessels of water failed all the inhibitants of
Bethulia.

Jdt 7:21
And the cisterns were emptied, and they had not water to
drink their fill for one day; for they gave them drink by
measure.

Jdt 7:22
Therefore their young children were out of heart, and their
women and young men fainted for thirst, and fell down in the
streets of the city, and by the passages of the gates, and there
was no longer any strength in them.

Jdt 7:23
Then all the people assembled to Ozias, and to the chief of
the city, both young men, and women, and children, and cried
with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,

Jdt 7:24
God be judge between us and you: for ye have done us great
injury, in that ye have not required peace of the children of
Assur.

Jdt 7:25
For now we have no helper: but God hath sold us into their
hands, that we should be thrown down before them with thirst and
great destruction.

Jdt 7:26
Now therefore call them unto you, and deliver the whole city
for a spoil to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army.

Jdt 7:27
For it is better for us to be made a spoil unto them, than to
die for thirst: for we will be his servants, that our souls may
live, and not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor
our wives nor our children to die.

Jdt 7:28
We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and
our God and Lord of our fathers, which punisheth us according to
our sins and the sins of our fathers, that he do not according
as we have said this day.

Jdt 7:29
Then there was great weeping with one consent in the midst of
the assembly; and they cried unto the Lord God with a loud
voice.

Jdt 7:30
Then said Ozias to them, Brethren, be of good courage, let us
yet endure five days, in the which space the Lord our God may
turn his mercy toward us; for he will not forsake us utterly.

Jdt 7:31
And if these days pass, and there come no help unto us, I
will do according to your word.

Jdt 7:32
And he dispersed the people, every one to their own charge;
and they went unto the walls and towers of their city, and sent
the women and children into their houses: and they were very low
brought in the city.

Jdt 8:1
Now at that time Judith heard thereof, which was the daughter
of Merari, the son of Ox,