2 Maccabees 3:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows.

²⁰ And all holding up their hands towards heaven, made supplication.

²¹ For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity.