2 Maccabees 15:24-26

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁴ By the might of your arm may these blasphemers who come against your holy people be struck down.’ With these words he ended his prayer.

²⁵ Nicanor and his troops advanced with trumpets and battle-songs, ²⁶ but Judas and his troops met the enemy in battle with invocations to God and prayers.