2 Maccabees 1:5-7

New Catholic Bible

⁵ May he hear your prayers and be propitious to you, and never forsake you in a time of adversity. ⁶ Even at this very moment we are offering prayers for you here.

⁷ In the reign of Demetrius, in the year one hundred and sixty-nine, we Jews wrote to you during the period of persecution and crisis that befell us during those years after Jason and his followers had revolted against the holy land and the kingdom,