Judith 7:14 CPDV

¹²  Then, all the men and women, youths and little ones, gathering together before Uzziah, all with one voice together,

¹³  said: 'May God be judge between us and you, for you have done evil with us, in not being willing to speak peacefully with the Assyrians, and because of this, God has sold us into their hands.

¹⁴  And therefore, there is no one to help us, while we are prostrated before their eyes with thirst and great destruction.

¹⁵  And now, gather together all who are in the city, so that we may willingly deliver every one of us to the people of Holofernes.

¹⁶  For it is better that as captives, being alive, we should bless the Lord, than that we should die and become a disgrace to all flesh, after we have seen our wives and our children die before our eyes.