2 Maccabees 1:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ May he hear your prayers, and be reconciled unto you, and never forsake you in the evil time.

⁶ And now here we are praying for you.

⁷ When Demetrius reigned, in the year one hundred and sixty-nine, we Jews wrote to you, in the trouble, and violence, that came upon us in those years, after Jason withdrew himself from the holy land, and from the kingdom.