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• And you will make them pay dearly for their defiance and their refusal to meet you peaceably.' (Judith 7, 15)

• Their words pleased Holofernes as well as all his officers, and he decided to do as they suggested. (Judith 7, 16)

• Accordingly, a troop of Moabites moved forward with a further five thousand Assyrians. They penetrated the valley and seized the Israelites' waterpoints and springs. (Judith 7, 17)

• The Israelites called on the Lord their God, dispirited because the enemy had surrounded them and cut all line of retreat. (Judith 7, 19)

• For thirty-four days the Assyrian army, infantry, chariots, cavalrymen, had them surrounded. Every water-jar the inhabitants of Bethulia had was empty, (Judith 7, 20)

• their storage-wells were drying up; on no day could a man drink his fill, since their water was rationed. (Judith 7, 21)

• 'May God be judge between you and us! For you have done us great harm, by not suing for peace with the Assyrians. (Judith 7, 24)

• And now there is no one to help us. God has delivered us into their hands to be prostrated before them in thirst and utter helplessness. (Judith 7, 25)

• After all, we should be much better off as their booty than we are now; no doubt we shall be enslaved, but at least we shall be alive and not see our little ones dying before our eyes or our wives and children perishing. (Judith 7, 27)

• By heaven and earth and by our God, the Lord of our fathers, who is punishing us for our sins and the sins of our ancestors, we implore you to take this course now, today.' (Judith 7, 28)

• Bitter lamentations rose from the whole assembly, and they all cried loudly to the Lord God. (Judith 7, 29)

• Then Uzziah spoke to them, 'Take heart, brothers! Let us hold out five days more. By then the Lord our God will take pity on us, for he will not desert us altogether. (Judith 7, 30)