1 Maccabees 5:30-32

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁰ At dawn they looked out and saw a large company, which could not be counted, carrying ladders and engines of war to capture the stronghold, and attacking the Jews within.^{[a] 31} So Judas saw that the battle had begun and that the cry of the town went up to Heaven, with trumpets and loud shouts, ³² and he said to the men of his forces, “Fight today for your kindred!”