2 Maccabees 15:23-25

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²³ So now, O Sovereign of the heavens, send a good angel to carry terror and trembling before us. ²⁴ By the might of thy arm may these blasphemers who come against thy holy people be struck down.” With these words he ended his prayer.

²⁵ Nica′nor and his men advanced with trumpets and battle songs;