Holy Scripture
3 Maccabees 6:12
Source: Septuagint
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12Thou who art All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men.
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10If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which thou preferrest.
11Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of thy beloved, saying, Neither did their God deliver them.
— 3 Maccabees 6:12 —
13Let the heathen cower before thy invincible might today, O glorious One, who hast all power to save the race of Jacob.
14The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech thee.