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11 And when this keeping was filled by twenty days/And when by twenty days the keeping of the wells was fulfilled, the cisterns and the gatherings of waters failed to (or for) all the men of Israel dwelling in Bethulia, so that there was not (anything) of water within the city, whereof they should be fulfilled, namely one day, for the water was given by measure to the people each day. [And when this ward by twenty days was full ended, failed the cisterns and the gatherings of water to all the dwellers in Bethulia, so that there was not within the city, whereof they might have enough or for one day, for at measure the water was given to the peoples each day.]

12 Then all men and women, young men and eld, and little children, were gathered together to Ozias, the chief priest, and all they said together with one voice [or and all together with one voice said],

13 The Lord deem betwixt us and thee, for thou, not willing (or not desiring) to speak peaceably with the men of Assyria, hast done evil things against us, and for this thing God hath sold us into the hands of them.

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