3 Maccabees 5:23-25

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²³ Then, as soon as the cock had crowed in the early morning, Hermon, having equipped^[a] the animals, began to move them along in the great colonnade. ²⁴ The crowds of the city had been assembled for this most pitiful spectacle and they were eagerly waiting for daybreak. ²⁵ But the Jews, at their last gasp—since the time had run out—stretched their hands towards heaven and with most tearful supplication and mournful dirges implored the supreme God^[b] to help them again at once.