11. And when they had kept this watch through twenty full days, the cisterns and collections of waters failed among all the inhabitants of Bethulia, so that there was within the city not enough to satisfy them for even one day, because water was given out to the people daily by measure.
12. Then, all the men and women, youths and little ones, gathering together before Uzziah, all with one voice together,
13. said: "May God be judge between us and you, for you have done evil with us, in not being willing to speak peacefully with the Assyrians, and because of this, God has sold us into their hands.
14. And therefore, there is no one to help us, while we are prostrated before their eyes with thirst and great destruction.