3 Maccabees 6:1-2

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Prayer of Eleazar

6 Then a certain Eleazar, famous among the priests of the country, who had attained a ripe old age and throughout his life had been adorned with every virtue, directed the elders around him to stop calling upon the holy God, and he prayed as follows: ² ‘King of great power, Almighty God Most High, governing all creation with mercy,