Good News Translation
When they had collected the enemy's weapons and looted the dead, they celebrated the Sabbath, praising the Lord and giving thanks to him, because he had brought them safely to that day and had given them the first sign of his mercy.

New Revised Standard Version
When they had collected the arms of the enemy and stripped them of their spoils, they kept the sabbath, giving great praise and thanks to the Lord, who had preserved them for that day and allotted it to them as the beginning of mercy.

Contemporary English Version
After the troops had collected the valuables from the dead enemy soldiers, they celebrated the Sabbath, and they praised and thanked the Lord for keeping them safe while they fought. This victory meant that God was being kind to our nation once again.

New American Bible
They collected the enemy’s weapons and stripped them of their spoils, and then observed the sabbath with fervent praise and thanks to the Lord who kept them safe for that day on which he allotted them the beginning of his mercy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But when they had gathered together their arms and their spoils, they kept the sabbath: blessing the Lord who had delivered them that day, distilling the beginning of mercy upon them.

But when they had gathered together their arms and their spoils, they kept the sabbath: blessing the Lord who had delivered them that day, distilling the beginning of mercy upon them.

2 Maccabees 8:25
And they took the money of them that came to buy them, and they pursued them on every side.

2 Maccabees 8:26
But they came back for want of time: for it was the day before the sabbath: and therefore they did not continue the pursuit.

2 Maccabees 8:28
Then after the sabbath they divided the spoils to the feeble and the orphans, and the widows, and the rest they took for themselves and their servants.

2 Maccabees 8:29
When this was done, and they had all made a common supplication, they besought the merciful Lord, to be reconciled to his servants unto the end.