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All the reservoirs and cisterns went dry, so that the drinking water had to be rationed, and not a day passed when there was enough water to go around.
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Children were becoming weak; everywhere throughout the town women and young people were collapsing. No one had any strength left.
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All the people of the town - men, women, and children alike - gathered around Uzziah and the town officials and shouted in protest,
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"God will punish you for what you have done to us! You are to blame for what is happening, because you did not make peace with the Assyrians.
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There is no one to help us now! God has put us in their power. We are exhausted and dying of thirst.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.