3 Maccabees 5:39-41

Common English Bible

³⁹ But the king’s officials, who were reclining at the table with him, were taken aback by his unstable mind and began to protest as follows: ⁴⁰ “Your Majesty, how long will you test us, as though we were fools, giving an order a third time to destroy the Jews and again reversing your decisions? ⁴¹ As a result, the city is in an uproar because of its expectation. It is already swarming with mobs and is very much at risk of being plundered.”