2 Maccabees 3:17

¹⁵But the priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in their priests’ vestments, called unto heaven upon him that made a law concerning things given to be kept, that they should safely be preserved for such as had committed them to be kept.

¹⁶Then whoso had looked the high priest in the face, it would have wounded his heart: for his countenance and the changing of his color declared the inward agony of his mind.

— 2 Maccabees 3:17 —

¹⁸Others ran flocking out of their houses to the general supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.

¹⁹And the women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, abounded in the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ran, some to the gates, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows.