Judith 7:14
Good News Translation
Everyone will starve to death--men, women, and children. Even before we attack, the streets will be littered with their corpses.

New Revised Standard Version
They and their wives and children will waste away with famine, and before the sword reaches them they will be strewn about in the streets where they live.

Contemporary English Version
Every man, woman, and child in the town will starve to death, and the streets will be filled with dead bodies, even before your army attacks.

New American Bible
They and their wives and children will languish with hunger, and even before the sword strikes them they will be laid low in the streets where they live.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down before their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down before their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction.

Judith 7:12
Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering themselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice,

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 7:15
And now assemble ye all that are in the city, that we may of our own accord yield ourselves all up to the people of Holofernes.

Judith 7:16
For it is better, that being captives we should live and bless the Lord, than that we should die, and be a reproach to all flesh, after we have seen our wives and our infants die before our eyes.

Context
Judith 7
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. 14And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down before their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction. 15And now assemble ye all that are in the city, that we may of our own accord yield ourselves all up to the people of Holofernes.…
Cross References
Judith 7:12
Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering themselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice,

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 7:15
And now assemble ye all that are in the city, that we may of our own accord yield ourselves all up to the people of Holofernes.

Judith 7:16
For it is better, that being captives we should live and bless the Lord, than that we should die, and be a reproach to all flesh, after we have seen our wives and our infants die before our eyes.



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Judith 7:13
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