Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation I know this is why all these terrible things have happened to me and I am about to die in deep despair here in this foreign land." New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge I know, therefore, that for this cause these evils have found me: and behold I perish with great grief in a strange land. 1 Maccabees 6:11And I said in my heart: Into how much tribulation am I come, and into what floods of sorrow wherein now I am: I that was pleasant and beloved in my power! 1 Maccabees 6:12 But now I remember the evils that I did in Jerusalem, from whence also I took away all the spoils of gold, and of silver, that were in it, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Juda without cause. 1 Maccabees 6:14 Then he called Philip, one of his friends, and he made him regent over all his kingdom. 1 Maccabees 6:15 And he gave him the crown, and his robe, and his ring, that he should go to Antiochus, his son, and should bring him up for the kingdom. Context 1 Maccabees 6…12But now I remember the evils that I did in Jerusalem, from whence also I took away all the spoils of gold, and of silver, that were in it, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Juda without cause. 13I know, therefore, that for this cause these evils have found me: and behold I perish with great grief in a strange land. 14Then he called Philip, one of his friends, and he made him regent over all his kingdom.… Cross References 1 Maccabees 6:11 And I said in my heart: Into how much tribulation am I come, and into what floods of sorrow wherein now I am: I that was pleasant and beloved in my power! 1 Maccabees 6:12 But now I remember the evils that I did in Jerusalem, from whence also I took away all the spoils of gold, and of silver, that were in it, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Juda without cause. 1 Maccabees 6:14 Then he called Philip, one of his friends, and he made him regent over all his kingdom. 1 Maccabees 6:15 And he gave him the crown, and his robe, and his ring, that he should go to Antiochus, his son, and should bring him up for the kingdom. |