Good News Translation
Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord their God for help. They had lost their courage, for with the enemy all around them there was no way to escape.

New Revised Standard Version
The Israelites then cried out to the Lord their God, for their courage failed, because all their enemies had surrounded them, and there was no way of escape from them.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites lost all hope, when they realized they were surrounded and had no way to escape. So they cried out to the Lord their God for help.

New American Bible
The Israelites cried to the Lord, their God, for they were disheartened, since all their enemies had them surrounded, and there was no way of escaping from them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We have sinned with our fathers, we have done unjustly, we have committed iniquity:

We have sinned with our fathers, we have done unjustly, we have committed iniquity:

Judith 7:17
We call to witness this day heaven and earth, and the God of our fathers, who taketh vengeance upon us according to our sins, conjuring you to deliver now the city into the hand of the army of Holofernes, that our end may be short by the edge of the sword, which is made longer by the drought of thirst.

Judith 7:18
And when they had said these things, there was great weeping and lamentation of all in the assembly, and for many hours with one voice they cried to God, saying:

Judith 7:20
Have thou mercy on us, because thou art good, or punish our iniquities by chastising us thyself, and deliver not them that trust in thee to a people that knoweth not thee,

Judith 7:21
That they may not say among the Gentiles: Where is their God?