3 Maccabees 6:1-3

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The Prayer of Eleazar

6 Then a certain Elea′zar, famous among the priests of the country, who had attained a ripe old age and throughout his life had been adorned with every virtue, directed the elders around him to cease calling upon the holy God and prayed as follows: ² “King of great power, Almighty God Most High, governing all creation with mercy, ³ look upon the descendants of Abraham, O Father, upon the children of the sainted Jacob, a people of your consecrated portion who are perishing as foreigners in a foreign land.