Judith 7:25-27

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁵ For now we have no one to help us; God has sold us into their hands, to strew us on the ground before them with thirst and utter destruction. ²⁶ Now call them in and surrender the whole city to the army of Holofer′nes and to all his forces, to be plundered. ²⁷ For it would be better for us to be captured by them;^[a] for we will be slaves, but our lives will be spared, and we shall not witness the death of our babes before our eyes, or see our wives and children draw their last breath.