2 Maccabees 9:13-15

Common English Bible

¹³ This repulsive individual solemnly promised to the Lord (although God no longer had mercy on him), declaring that ¹⁴ the holy city, to which he was rushing to knock down to the ground and turn into a mass cemetery, was now free. ¹⁵ And he would make all Jews equal to the Athenians, even though previously he had considered them unworthy of burial but fit only for bird food, and their infants fit for animals to prey upon.