1 Maccabees 11:48-50

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴⁸ They set fire to the city and seized a large amount of spoil on that day, and saved the king. ⁴⁹ When the people of the city saw that the Jews had gained control of the city as they pleased, their courage failed and they cried out to the king with this entreaty: ⁵⁰ ‘Grant us peace, and make the Jews stop fighting against us and our city.’