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Mattathias mourns alone with a bowed, distressed face.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 2

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 2:7

    Lament for the City

    A Covenant in the Wilderness · 1 Maccabees 2

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    7And he said, “Alas! Why was I born to see the ruin of my people and the ruin of the holy city, and to sit there while it was given into the hand of enemies, and the sanctuary into the hand of foreigners?”

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