2 Maccabees 15:34
Good News Translation
Everyone there looked up to heaven and praised the Lord, who had revealed his power and had kept his Temple from being defiled.

New Revised Standard Version
And they all, looking to heaven, blessed the Lord who had manifested himself, saying, “Blessed is he who has kept his own place undefiled!”

Contemporary English Version
Everyone looked toward heaven and prayed, "Our Lord, we praise you for protecting your sacred temple and for showing us your wonderful power."

New American Bible
At this, everyone looked toward heaven and praised the Lord who manifests himself: “Blessed be the one who has preserved undefiled his own place!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then all blessed the Lord of heaven, saying: Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then all blessed the Lord of heaven, saying: Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.

2 Maccabees 15:32
And shewing them the head of Nicanor, and the wicked hand, which he had stretched out, with proud boasts, against the holy house of the Almighty God,

2 Maccabees 15:33
He commanded also, that the tongue of the wicked Nicanor should be cut out, and given by pieces to birds, and the hand of the furious man to be hanged up over against the temple.

2 Maccabees 15:35
And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top of the castle, that it might be an evident and manifest sign of the help of God.

2 Maccabees 15:36
And they all ordained by a common decree, by no means to let this day pass without solemnity:

Context
2 Maccabees 15
33He commanded also, that the tongue of the wicked Nicanor should be cut out, and given by pieces to birds, and the hand of the furious man to be hanged up over against the temple. 34Then all blessed the Lord of heaven, saying: Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled. 35And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top of the castle, that it might be an evident and manifest sign of the help of God.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 15:32
And shewing them the head of Nicanor, and the wicked hand, which he had stretched out, with proud boasts, against the holy house of the Almighty God,

2 Maccabees 15:33
He commanded also, that the tongue of the wicked Nicanor should be cut out, and given by pieces to birds, and the hand of the furious man to be hanged up over against the temple.

2 Maccabees 15:35
And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top of the castle, that it might be an evident and manifest sign of the help of God.

2 Maccabees 15:36
And they all ordained by a common decree, by no means to let this day pass without solemnity:



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2 Maccabees 15:33
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