2 Maccabees 8:17

17 Setting before their eyes the injury they had unjustly done the holy place, and also the injury they had done to the city, which had been shamefully abused, besides their destroying the ordinances of the fathers.

2 Maccabees 8:17 — New Revised Standard Version: Updated Edition (NRSVue)

17 keeping before their eyes the lawless outrage that the nations had committed against the holy place and the torture of the derided city, as well as the overthrow of their ancestral way of life.

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