1 Maccabees 7:36-38

³⁶ Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple, weeping, and saying,

³⁷ Thou, O Lord, didst choose this house to be called by thy name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people:

³⁸ Be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.