2 Maccabees 3:21
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CEB
To see the whole crowd on its knees and faces and the great suffering and dread of the high priest was a pitiful sight.
DRA
For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity.
GNT
What a pitiful sight it was to see the High Priest in such great agony and frustration and to see everyone in the city confused and lying face down on the ground.
NABRE
It was pitiful to see the populace prostrate everywhere and the high priest full of dread and anguish.
NCB
It was a pitiful sight to observe the crowd lying prostrate and the agony of the high priest in his great anguish.
NRSVA
There was something pitiable in the prostration of the whole populace and the anxiety of the high priest in his great anguish.
NRSVACE
There was something pitiable in the prostration of the whole populace and the anxiety of the high priest in his great anguish.
NRSVCE
There was something pitiable in the prostration of the whole populace and the anxiety of the high priest in his great anguish.
NRSVUE
There was something pitiable in the prostration of the whole populace and the anxiety of the high priest in his great anguish.
RSV
There was something pitiable in the prostration of the whole populace and the anxiety of the high priest in his great anguish.
RSVCE
There was something pitiable in the prostration of the whole populace and the anxiety of the high priest in his great anguish.
WYC
for there was a wretched abiding of (the) multitude mingled (or mixed), and of the highest priest ordained in strife, or anguish.
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