2 Maccabees 1:27LXX
Orthodox Bible · LXX · Verse 27 of 36
"Gather together our scattered people, deliver them that are slaves to the Gentiles, and look upon them that are despised and abhorred: that the Gentiles may know that thou art our God."
In context
25Who alone art gracious, who alone art just, and almighty, and eternal, who deliverest Israel from all evil, who didst choose the fathers and didst sanctify them:
26Receive the sacrifice for all thy people Israel, and preserve thy own portion, and sanctify it.
27Gather together our scattered people, deliver them that are slaves to the Gentiles, and look upon them that are despised and abhorred: that the Gentiles may know that thou art our God.
28Punish them that oppress us, and that treat us injuriously with pride.
29Establish thy people in thy holy place, as Moses hath spoken.