Judith 7:10-12

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁰ And these words pleased Holofernes, and his officers, and he placed all round about a hundred men at every spring.

¹¹ And when they had kept this watch for full twenty days, the cisterns, and the reserve of waters failed among all the inhabitants of Bethulia, so that there was not within the city, enough to satisfy them, no not for one day, for water was daily given out to the people by measure.

¹² Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering themselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice,