1 Maccabees 3:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ For the success of war is not in the multitude of the army, but strength cometh from heaven.

²⁰ They come against us with an insolent multitude, and with pride, to destroy us, and our wives, and our children, and to take our spoils.

²¹ But we will fight for our lives and our laws: