Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Stay in your camp and keep your soldiers in their quarters. Just command your men to blockade the springs at the foot of the mountains, New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering themselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice, Judith 7:10And these words pleased Holofernes, and his officers, and he placed all round about a hundred men at every spring. Judith 7:11 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. Judith 7:13 Said: God be judge between us and thee, for thou hast done evil against us, in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably with the Assyrians, and for this cause God hath sold us into their hands. Judith 7:14 And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down before their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction. Context Judith 7…11And 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. 12Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering themselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice, 13Said: God be judge between us and thee, for thou hast done evil against us, in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably with the Assyrians, and for this cause God hath sold us into their hands.… Cross References Judith 7:10 And these words pleased Holofernes, and his officers, and he placed all round about a hundred men at every spring. Judith 7:11 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. Judith 7:13 Said: God be judge between us and thee, for thou hast done evil against us, in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably with the Assyrians, and for this cause God hath sold us into their hands. Judith 7:14 And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down before their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction. |