Judith 7:20-22

New Catholic Bible

²⁰ For thirty-four days the entire Assyrian army, with infantry, chariots, and cavalry, kept them surrounded, until all the water jars possessed by the inhabitants of Bethulia were empty. ²¹ Their cisterns were also running dry, so that there was no day on which they had enough to drink, and their drinking water began to be rationed. ²² Their children fainted away, and the women and young men grew weak with thirst. They collapsed in the streets and the gateways of the town, for they had no strength left.