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1 Maccabees 6:11-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 6:11-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 I said to myself, ‘To what distress I have come! And into what a great flood I now am plunged! For I was kind and beloved in my power.’ 12 But now I remember the wrong I did in Jerusalem. I seized all its vessels of silver and gold, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without good reason.(A) 13 I know that it is because of this that these misfortunes have come upon me; here I am, perishing of bitter disappointment in a strange land.”
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