10. If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer.
11. Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of your beloved, saying, Neither did their god deliver them.
12. You, who are 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 have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men.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 your invincible might today, O glorious One, who have all power to save the race of Jacob.
14. The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech you.
15. Let it be shewn to all the nations that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face away from us; but as you said that you would not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do you 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.
17. When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army.
18. Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down and were visible to all but the Jews.
19. And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies’ host with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters.
20. And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralysed the vehemence of his spirit.
21. They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them.
22. The king’s wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at his own machinations.
23. For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying,