1 Maccabees 7:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 So they trusted him. But he arrested sixty of them and killed them in one day, according to the words that he wrote:[a]
17 “The flesh of your faithful,
and their blood they have spilled all around about Jerusalem,
and no one was left to bury them.”(A)
18 Then fear and dread of them came upon all the people, who said: “There is no truth or justice among them; they violated the agreement and the oath that they swore.”
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