Judith 7:16-18

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁶ It is better that we be made prisoners, and bless God and live, then that we die thus, and we be shame to each man, and since we see our wives and our young children die for default (or our own failure) before our eyes. [Better it is that captive we bless God living than we die, and be reproof to all flesh, when we see our wives and our children die before our eyes,]

¹⁷ We call into witnessing today heaven and earth, and the God of our fathers, that punisheth us after our sins, that now ye betake this city into the hands of the chivalry of Holofernes, and that our end be made short in the sharpness of sword, which end is now made longer in the dryness of thirst. [We take to witness today heaven and earth, and (the) God of our fathers, that doeth vengeance on us after our sins, that now ye take the city in(to) the hand(s) of the chivalry of Holofernes, that our end be short in the mouth of sword, that longer is made in (the) drought of thirst.]

¹⁸ And when they had said these things, great weeping and yelling was made of (or by) all men in the great church, and by many hours they cried with one voice to the Lord, and said,