3 Maccabees 2:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁰ And because you love the house of Israel, you promised that if we should have reverses, and tribulation should overtake us, you would listen to our petition when we come to this place and pray. ¹¹ And indeed you are faithful and true. ¹² And because oftentimes when our fathers were oppressed you helped them in their humiliation, and rescued them from great evils,