10 And these words were pleasing before Holofernes and before his attendants, and so he stationed a hundred men around every spring.
11 And when they had kept this watch through twenty full days, the cisterns and collections of waters failed among all the inhabitants of Bethulia, so that there was within the city not enough to satisfy them for even one day, because water was given out to the people daily by measure.
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 everyone 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.