1 Maccabees 7:34-36

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁴ But he mocked them and derided them and defiled them and spoke arrogantly, ³⁵ and in anger he swore this oath, “Unless Judas and his army are delivered into my hands this time, then if I return safely I will burn up this house.” And he went out in great anger. ³⁶ At this the priests went in and stood before the altar and the temple; they wept and said,