2 Maccabees 14:33-35
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
33 he stretched out his right hand toward the sanctuary, and swore this oath: “If you do not hand Judas over to me as a prisoner, I will level this precinct of God to the ground and tear down the altar, and I will build here a splendid temple to Diony′sus.”
34 Having said this, he went away. Then the priests stretched forth their hands toward heaven and called upon the constant Defender of our nation, in these words: 35 “O Lord of all, who hast need of nothing, thou wast pleased that there be a temple for thy habitation among us;
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