2 Maccabees 3:20-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁰ And all holding up their hands towards heaven, made supplication.

²¹ For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity.

²² And these indeed called upon almighty God, to preserve the things that had been committed to them, safe and sure for those that had committed them.