51 Your holy place is trampled down and profaned. Your priests mourn in humiliation. (WEB) 52 Behold, the Gentiles are assembled together against us to destroy us. You know what things they imagine against us. (WEB) 53 How will we be able to stand against them, unless you help us?” (WEB)
1 Maccabees 3:51–53
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