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Then all the people assembled to Ozias, and to the chief of the city, both young men, and women, and children, and cried with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,
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God be judge between us and you: for ye have done us great injury, in that ye have not required peace of the children of Assur.
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For 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.
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Now therefore call them unto you, and deliver the whole city for a spoil to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army.
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For 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.