Good News Translation
And the people who had to stay in Jerusalem were deeply concerned about how a battle on open ground would turn out.

New Revised Standard Version
And those who had to remain in the city were in no little distress, being anxious over the encounter in the open country.

Contemporary English Version
Meanwhile, the people of Jerusalem were anxious and worried about those who had left to fight in the countryside.

New American Bible
Those who were left in the city suffered no less an agony, anxious as they were about the battle in the open country.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they also that were in the city, had no little concern for them that were to be engaged in battle.

And they also that were in the city, had no little concern for them that were to be engaged in battle.

2 Maccabees 15:17
Thus being exhorted with the words of Judas, which were very good, and proper to stir up the courage, and strengthen the hearts of the young men, they resolved to fight, and to set upon them manfully: that valour might decide the matter, because the holy city, and the temple were in danger.

2 Maccabees 15:18
For their concern was less for their wives, and children, and for their brethren, and kinsfolks: but their greatest and principal fear was for the holiness of the temple.

2 Maccabees 15:20
And now when all expected what judgment would be given, and the enemies were at hand, and the army was set in array, the beasts and the horsemen ranged in convenient places,

2 Maccabees 15:21
Machabeus considering the coming of the multitude, and the divers preparations of armour, and the fierceness of the beasts, stretching out his hands to heaven, called upon the Lord, that worketh wonders, who giveth victory to them that are worthy, not according to the power of their arms, but according as it seemeth good to him.