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Their children lost heart, and the women and young men fainted from thirst and fell down in the streets of the city and in the passages through the gates; there was no strength left in them any longer.
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Then all the people, the young men, the women, and the children, gathered about Uzziah and the rulers of the city and cried out with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,
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"God be judge between you and us! For you have done us a great injury in not making peace with the Assyrians.
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For now we have no one to help us; God has sold us into their hands, to strew us on the ground before them with thirst and utter destruction.
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Now call them in and surrender the whole city to the army of Holofernes and to all his forces, to be plundered.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.