Judith 7:27
“For it is better for vs to be made a spoile vnto them, then to die for thirst: for wee will be his seruants, that our soules may liue, and not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor our wiues nor our children to die.”
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Judith 7:27 Context
25For now we haue no helper: but God hath sold vs into their hands, that wee should be throwen downe before them with thirst, and great destruction. 26Now therefore call them vnto you, and deliuer the whole citie for a spoile to the people of Olofernes, and to all his armie. 27For it is better for vs to be made a spoile vnto them, then to die for thirst: for wee will be his seruants, that our soules may liue, and not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor our wiues nor our children to die. 28We take to witnesse against you, the heauen and the earth, and our God, and Lord of our fathers, which punisheth vs according to our sinnes, and the sinnes of our fathers, that hee doe not according as we haue said this day. 29Then there was great weeping with one consent in the middest of the assembly, and they cryed vnto the Lord God with a loude voice.
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For it is better for us to be made a spoil unto them, than to die for thirst: for we will be his servants, that our souls may live, and not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor our wives nor our children to die.
- King James Version
For it is better for us to be made a spoil for them than to die of thirst; for we will be his servants, so that our souls may live and we will not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor the dying of our wives or our children.
- World English Bible