2 Maccabees 15:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ But Machabeus ever trusted with all hope that God would help them.

⁸ And he exhorted his people not to fear the coming of the nations, but to remember the help they had before received from heaven, and now to hope for victory from the Almighty.

⁹ And speaking to them out of the law, and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the battles they had fought before, he made them more cheerful: