6
Doubtless I will avenge my nation, and the sanctuary, and our wives, and our children: for all the heathen are gathered to destroy us of very malice.
7
Now as soon as the people heard these words, their spirit revived.
8
And they answered with a loud voice, saying, Thou shalt be our leader instead of Judas and Jonathan thy brother.
9
Fight thou our battles, and whatsoever, thou commandest us, that will we do.
10
So then he gathered together all the men of war, and made haste to finish the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.