2 Maccabees 1:23-25

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²³ And all the priests made prayer, while the sacrifice was consuming, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering.

²⁴ And the prayer of Nehemias was after this manner: O Lord God, Creator of all things, dreadful and strong, just and merciful, who alone art the good king,

²⁵ Who alone art gracious, who alone art just, and almighty, and eternal, who deliverest Israel from all evil, who didst choose the fathers and didst sanctify them: