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1 Maccabees 2:7 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

he said:“Woe is me! Why was I bornto see the ruin of my people,the ruin of the holy city—To dwell thereas it was given into the hands of enemies,the sanctuary into the hands of strangers?

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