Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Women, wearing nothing but skirts of sackcloth, crowded the streets. Young girls whose parents had never allowed them to be seen in public ran to the gates or to the walls of the city, or just stared out of their windows. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows. 2 Maccabees 3:17For 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. 2 Maccabees 3:18 Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt. 2 Maccabees 3:20 And all holding up their hands towards heaven made supplication. 2 Maccabees 3:21 For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest, who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity. Context 2 Maccabees 3…18Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt. 19And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows. 20And all holding up their hands towards heaven made supplication.… Cross References 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. 2 Maccabees 3:18 Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt. 2 Maccabees 3:20 And all holding up their hands towards heaven made supplication. 2 Maccabees 3:21 For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest, who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity. |