Judith 7:13-15

New Catholic Bible

¹³ since that is where all the people of Bethulia obtain their water. When they start dying of thirst, they will surrender their town. Meanwhile, we and our troops will ascend to the summits of the nearby mountains and set up camp there to ensure that not a single person will escape from that town. ¹⁴ They and their wives and children will waste away with hunger, and even before the sword strikes them their corpses will be strewn in the streets of their town. ¹⁵ In this way you will make them pay dearly for their defiance and their refusal to receive you peacefully.”