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Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering themselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice,
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Said: God be judge between us and thee, for thou hast done evil against us, in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably with the Assyrians, and for this cause God hath sold us into their hands.
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And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down before their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction.
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And now assemble ye all that are in the city, that we may of our own accord yield ourselves all up to the people of Holofernes.
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For it is better, that being captives we should live and bless the Lord, than that we should die, and be a reproach to all flesh, after we have seen our wives and our infants die before our eyes.