Judith 7:21-23

New Catholic Bible

²¹ Their cisterns were also running dry, so that there was no day on which they had enough to drink, and their drinking water began to be rationed. ²² Their children fainted away, and the women and young men grew weak with thirst. They collapsed in the streets and the gateways of the town, for they had no strength left.

²³ Then all the people, including the young men, women, and children, gathered around Uzziah and the rulers of the town. They raised a great clamor of protest and said in the presence of all the elders: