2 Maccabees 9:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ The holy temple also which before he had spoiled, he promiseth to adorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices.

¹⁷ Yea also, that he would become a Jew himself, and would go through every place of the earth, and declare the power of God.

¹⁸ But his pains not ceasing (for the just judgment of God was come upon him) despairing of life he wrote to the Jews in the manner of a supplication, a letter in these words: