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Judith 16:13

Then the camp of the Assyrians howled, when my lowly ones appeared, parched with thirst.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Tunc ululaverunt castra Assyriorum, quando apparuerunt humiles mei, arescentes in siti.
Septuagint (Swete) shown from Judith 16:11: τότε ἠλάλαξαν οἱ ταπεινοί μου, καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν οἱ ἀσθενοῦντές μου καὶ ἐπτοήθησαν· ὕψωσαν τὴν φωνὴν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀνετράπησαν.

Haydock's commentary

Then. Greek, "Than my lowly ones (Haydock; she speaks thus contemptuously of the Assyrians.; Calmet) howled, my weak ones cried out through fear; they raised their voice, and were overthrown." (Haydock)

Others think that she is speaking of her fellow-citizens, (Tirinus) or both. (Haydock)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.