2 Maccabees 3:21

21 What a pitiful sight it was to see the High Priest in such great agony and frustration and to see everyone in the city confused and lying face down on the ground.

2 Maccabees 3:21 In-Context

19 Women, wearing nothing but skirts of sackcloth, crowded the streets. Young girls whose parents had never allowed them to be seen in public ran to the gates or to the walls of the city, or just stared out of their windows.
20 But wherever they went, they lifted their hands to God in prayer.
21 What a pitiful sight it was to see the High Priest in such great agony and frustration and to see everyone in the city confused and lying face down on the ground.
22 While everyone was begging the Lord Almighty to protect the money that had been entrusted to his care,
23 Heliodorus went on with his plan.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.