Judith 7:14

14 They and their wives and children will waste away with famine, and before the sword reaches them they will be strewn about in the streets where they live.

Judith 7:14 In-Context

12 Remain in your camp, and keep all the men in your forces with you; only let your servants take possession of the spring of water that flows from the foot of the mountain --

13 for this is where all the people of Bethulia get their water. So thirst will destroy them, and they will give up their city. We and our people will go up to the tops of the nearby mountains and camp there to keep watch that not a man gets out of the city.

14 They and their wives and children will waste away with famine, and before the sword reaches them they will be strewn about in the streets where they live.

15 So you will pay them back with evil, because they rebelled and did not receive you peaceably."

16 These words pleased Holofernes and all his servants, and he gave orders to do as they had said.