2 Maccabees 1:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵ May he hear your prayers and be reconciled to you, and may he not forsake you in time of evil. ⁶ We are now praying for you here.

⁷ In the reign of Demetrius, in the one hundred and sixty-ninth year,^[a] we Jews wrote to you, in the critical distress that came upon us in those years after Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom