3 Maccabees 4:3-5

Common English Bible

³ What district or city, or what inhabited place of any kind, or what streets weren’t filled with grieving and weeping for them? ⁴ They were being sent off together by the generals in every city in a merciless and cruel manner. At the sight of these unusual punishments, even some of the Jews’ enemies wept over their most miserable expulsion, for they saw their pitiable state and reflected on the uncertain outcome of life. ⁵ A multitude of gray-haired, elderly men were being led away, bent over with age, their feet plodding along under the distress of a forced, swift march, with no consideration given to their age.