Catholic Public Domain Version

1 Maccabees 6:20-22 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

20. And they came together and besieged them in the one hundred and fiftieth year, and they made catapults and other machines.

21. And certain ones of these, who were besieged, escaped. And some of the impious out of Israel joined themselves to them.

22. And they went to the king, and they said: "How long will you not act with judgment and vindicate our brothers?