1 Maccabees 7:16-18

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶So they trusted him; but he seized sixty of them and killed them in one day, in accordance with the word which was written,

¹⁷“The flesh of thy saints and their blood
they poured out round about Jerusalem,
and there was none to bury them.”

¹⁸Then the fear and dread of them fell upon all the people, for they said, “There is no truth or justice in them, for they have violated the agreement and the oath which they swore.”

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