12
Thou, who art All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men.
13
Let the heathen cower before thine invincible might today, O glorious One, who hast all power to save the race of Jacob.
14
The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech thee.
15
Let it be shewn to all the nations that thou art with us, O Lord, and hast not turned thy face away from us; but as thou saidst that thou wouldst not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do thou fulfil this saying, O Lord.
16
Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome, with the wild beasts, and with his tumultuous power.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.