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2 Maccabees 1:25-30 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

25. You alone are excellent, you alone are just, and all-powerful, and eternal, who frees Israel from all evil, who created the chosen fathers and sanctified them.

26. Receive the sacrifice on behalf of all of your people Israel, and preserve and sanctify your portion.

27. Gather together our dispersion, free those who are in servitude to the Gentiles, and respect those who are despised and abhorred, so that the Gentiles may know that you are our God.

28. Afflict those who, in their arrogance, are oppressing us and treating us abusively.

29. Establish your people in your holy place, just as Moses said."

30. And so the priests sang hymns until the sacrifice had been consumed.

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