2 Maccabees 15:31-33

New Catholic Bible

³¹ When he arrived there and had called the people together and stationed the priests before the altar, he sent for those in the citadel ³² and showed them the head of the vile Nicanor and the wretched blasphemer’s arm that had been boastfully stretched out against the holy house of the Almighty. ³³ He cut out the tongue of the godless Nicanor and swore that he would feed it piecemeal to the birds and hang up the rewards of his folly opposite the temple.