Judith 7:23

23 Then all the people, the young men, the women, and the children, gathered around Uzziah and the rulers of the town and cried out with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,

Judith 7:23 In-Context

21 their cisterns were going dry, and on no day did they have enough water to drink, for their drinking water was rationed.

22 Their children were listless, and the women and young men fainted from thirst and were collapsing in the streets of the town and in the gateways; they no longer had any strength.

23 Then all the people, the young men, the women, and the children, gathered around Uzziah and the rulers of the town and cried out with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,

24 "Let God judge between you and us! You have done us a great injury in not making peace with the Assyrians.

25 For now we have no one to help us; God has sold us into their hands, to be strewn before them in thirst and exhaustion.