Judith 7:19-21

Revised Standard Version

The Distress of the Israelites

¹⁹ The people of Israel cried out to the Lord their God, for their courage failed, because all their enemies had surrounded them and there was no way of escape from them. ²⁰ The whole Assyrian army, their infantry, chariots, and cavalry, surrounded them for thirty-four days, until all the vessels of water belonging to every inhabitant of Bethu′lia were empty; ²¹ their cisterns were going dry, and they did not have enough water to drink their fill for a single day, because it was measured out to them to drink.