Judith 7:22-24

Common English Bible

²² Their children were discouraged, and the women and young men fainted from thirst in the city streets, collapsing at the entrance to the gates. They had no strength left.

²³ Then all the people—the young men, the women, and the children—gathered around Uzziah and the rulers of the city. They cried out before all the elders with a loud voice, saying: ²⁴ “Let God judge between you and us! You have done us great wrong by not making peace with the Assyrians.