1 Maccabees 9:45-47

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁵ And behold the battle is before us, and the water of the Jordan on this side and on that side, and banks, and marshes, and woods: and there is no place for us to turn aside.

⁴⁶ Now therefore cry ye to heaven, that ye may be delivered from the hand of your enemies. And they joined battle.

⁴⁷ And Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, but he turned away from him backwards.