2 Maccabees 9:17-19

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁷ over these things and that he shall be made a Jew, and to walk by each place of the land, and to preach the power of God.

¹⁸ But, for (the) sorrows ceased not, the just doom of God had above come on him (or had come upon him), he despaired, and wrote to (the) Jews [or he despairing wrote to (the) Jews], by manner of beseeching, an epistle, containing these things.

¹⁹ To the best citizens, (the) Jews, most health, and welfare, and to be rich, or in prosperity, the king and prince Antiochus.