3 Maccabees 5:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶ For to the Gentiles it appeared that the Jews were left without any aid, ⁷ because in their bonds they were forcibly confined on every side. But with tears and a voice hard to silence they all called upon the Almighty Lord and Ruler of all power, their merciful God and Father, praying ⁸ that he avert with vengeance the evil plot against them and in a glorious manifestation rescue them from the fate now prepared for them.