1 Maccabees 7:17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
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)
Jeremiah 14:16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 The people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and the sword. No one shall bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour out upon them their own wickedness.(A)
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