Good News Translation
Priests, wearing their priestly robes, threw themselves face downward before the altar and begged God to keep the money safe, since he had given the laws designed to protect the money that people deposited in the Temple.

New Revised Standard Version
The priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their priestly vestments and called toward heaven upon him who had given the law about deposits, that he should keep them safe for those who had deposited them.

Contemporary English Version
The priests in their sacred robes were lying face down on the ground in front of the altar and praying, "Our God, please protect this silver and gold! You yourself made the law that keeps our money safe while it is stored in the temple."

New American Bible
Priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their priestly robes, and called toward heaven for the one who had given the law about deposits to keep the deposits safe for those who had made them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their priests' vestments, and called upon him from heaven, who made the law concerning things given to be kept, that he would preserve them safe, for them that had deposited them.

And the priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their priests' vestments, and called upon him from heaven, who made the law concerning things given to be kept, that he would preserve them safe, for them that had deposited them.

2 Maccabees 3:13
But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said, that by all means the money must be carried to the king.

2 Maccabees 3:14
So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order this matter. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city.

2 Maccabees 3:16
Now whosoever saw the countenance of the high priest, was wounded in heart: for his face, and the changing of his colour, declared the inward sorrow of his mind.

2 Maccabees 3:17
For the man was so compassed with sadness and horror of the body, that it was manifest to them that beheld him, what sorrow he had in his heart.