1 Maccabees 3:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ And he grieved many kings, and made Jacob glad with his works, and his memory is blessed for ever.

⁸ And he went through the cities of Juda, and destroyed the wicked out of them, and turned away wrath from Israel.

⁹ And he was renowned even to the utmost part of the earth, and he gathered them that were perishing.