Judith 7:26

²⁴God be judge between us and you: for ye have done us great injury, in that ye have not required peace of the children of Assyria.

²⁵For now we have no helper: but God hath sold us into their hands, that we should be thrown down before them with thirst and great destruction.

— Judith 7:26 —

²⁷For it is better for us to be made a spoil unto them, than to die for thirst: for we will be his servants, that our souls may live, and not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor our wives nor our children to die.

²⁸We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and Lord of our fathers, which punisheth us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers, that he do not according as we have said this day.