Other translations
New Catholic Bible
However, the people were so parched with thirst that they led us to make this promise and to take an oath that cannot be broken.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
But the people were so thirsty that they compelled us to do for them what we have promised, and made us take an oath that we cannot break.
Good News Translation®
But our people are dying of thirst. They forced us to say what we did and to make a solemn promise, which we cannot break.
Wycliffe Bible
And Judith said to them, As ye know (or So that ye know), that this thing, that I might speak, is of (or from) God,
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
But the people were very thirsty, and they compelled us to do for them what we have promised, and made us take an oath which we cannot break.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
But the people were so thirsty that they compelled us to do for them what we have promised and made us take an oath that we cannot break.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
But the people were so thirsty that they compelled us to do for them what we have promised, and made us take an oath that we cannot break.
Common English Bible © 2011
But the people are very thirsty, and they strongly urged us to do what we promised them, and to make a solemn promise that we can’t break.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
The people, however, were so thirsty that they forced us to do for them as we have promised, and to bind ourselves by an oath that we cannot break.
Revised Standard Version
But the people were very thirsty, and they compelled us to do for them what we have promised, and made us take an oath which we cannot break.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
But the people were so thirsty that they compelled us to do for them what we have promised, and made us take an oath that we cannot break.