2 Maccabees 9:16-18

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁶ also to adorn with best gifts the holy temple, which he (had) robbed before, and to multiply (its) holy vessels, and to (the) giving of his rents (for the) costs (or the charges) pertaining to (the) sacrifices;

¹⁷ over these things and that he shall be made a Jew, and to walk by each place of the land, and to preach the power of God.

¹⁸ But, for (the) sorrows ceased not, the just doom of God had above come on him (or had come upon him), he despaired, and wrote to (the) Jews [or he despairing wrote to (the) Jews], by manner of beseeching, an epistle, containing these things.