2 Maccabees 3:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.

¹⁹ And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows.

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