Judith 7:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ But the children of Ammon and Moab came to Holofernes, saying: The children of Israel trust not in their spears, nor in their arrows, but the mountains are their defense, and the steep hires and precipices guard them.

⁹ Wherefore that thou mayst overcome them without joining battle, set guards at the springs that they may not draw water out of them, and thou shalt destroy them without sword, or at least being wearied out they will yield up their city, which they suppose, because it is situate in the mountains, to be impregnable.

¹⁰ And these words pleased Holofernes, and his officers, and he placed all round about a hundred men at every spring.