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Loud is my cry to the Lord, the prayer I utter for the Lord’s mercy, (Psalms 141, 2)
(A psalm. Of David.) Listen, Lord, to my prayer; give my plea a hearing, as thou art ever faithful; listen, thou who lovest the right. (Psalms 142, 1)
To thee I spread out my hands in prayer, for thee my soul thirsts, like a land parched with drought. (Psalms 142, 6)
Hasten, Lord, to answer my prayer; my spirit grows faint. Do not turn thy face away from me, and leave me like one sunk in the abyss. (Psalms 142, 7)
Happier the man who turns to the God of Jacob for help, puts no confidence but in the Lord his God, (Psalms 145, 5)
This is the God who makes his word known to Jacob, gives Israel ruling and decree. (Psalms 147, 8)
Great deeds, that kings rued bitterly, Jacob with exultation heard, posterity holds blessed evermore! (1 Maccabees 3, 7)
Not at Jerusalem; Jerusalem lay there, no city but a desert waste, nor any of her sons came and went; her sanctuary defiled, her citadel garrisoned by the alien, she was but a haunt of the Gentiles. Sad days for the men of Jacob; pipe nor harp sounded there now. (1 Maccabees 3, 45)
At Maspha, then, they gathered, looking across towards Jerusalem; time was when Maspha, too, had its place of prayer. (1 Maccabees 3, 46)
At the sight of their great numbers, this was Judas’ prayer: Blessed art thou, Saviour of Israel, who didst make use of thy servant David, a giant’s onset to overthrow! Victory thou didst give, over an invading army, to Saul’s son Jonathan and the squire that bore him company! (1 Maccabees 4, 30)
Their first thought was to rid their own territory of Jacob’s breed, and all at once they set about to murder and harry them. (1 Maccabees 5, 2)
And hard at the enemy’s heels he followed, with three companies of warriors that blew trumpets as they went, and cried aloud in prayer. (1 Maccabees 5, 33)
