2 Maccabees 5:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ But God did not choose the people for the place's sake, but the place for the people's sake.

²⁰ And therefore the place also itself was made partaker of the evils of the people: but afterward shall communicate in the good things thereof, and as it was forsaken in the wrath of almighty God, shall be exalted again with great glory, when the great Lord shall be reconciled.

²¹ So when Antiochus had taken away out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he went back in all haste to Antioch, thinking through pride, that he might now make the land navigable, and the sea passable on foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.