3 Maccabees 2:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But since you were pleased for your glory to rest among your people Israel, you set this place apart. ¹⁷ Don’t take vengeance on us because of the impurity of these people. Don’t call us to account because of their pollution, so that the lawless don’t boast in their hearts or rejoice in the arrogance of their tongues, saying, ¹⁸ “We trampled the house of holiness just as the houses of idols are trampled.”