2 Maccabees 1:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

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 ⁸ and burned the gate and shed innocent blood. We prayed to the Lord and were heard, and we offered sacrifice and grain-offering, and we lit the lamps and set out the loaves.