3 Maccabees 5:25LXX
Biblia Prawosławna · LXX · Werset 25 z 51
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"The Jews, breathless with momentary suspense, stretched forth their hands, and prayed the Greatest God, in mournful strains, again to help them speedily."
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23The morning cock had just crowed, and Hermon, having harnessed the brutes, was stimulating them in the great colonnade.
24The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn.
25The Jews, breathless with momentary suspense, stretched forth their hands, and prayed the Greatest God, in mournful strains, again to help them speedily.
26The sun's rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realized.
27The king, receiving him, was astonished at his unwonted exit; and, overwhelmed with a spirit of oblivion about everything, enquired the object of this earnest preparation.