1 Maccabees 7:37

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.

1 Maccabees 7:37 In-Context

35 and swore in his wrath, saying, "Unless Judas and his host are now delivered into my hands, if ever I come again in safety I will burn up this house." And with that he went out in a great rage.

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 upon this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword; remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer."

39 So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem and pitched his tents in Beth-horon, where a host out of Syria met him.