Good News Translation
All the surrounding nations now tried to destroy them. They thought that the Jews had no leaders or allies and that the time was ripe to annihilate them and put an end to their history.

New Revised Standard Version
All the nations around them tried to destroy them, for they said, “They have no leader or helper. Now therefore let us make war on them and blot out the memory of them from humankind.”

Contemporary English Version
because the Gentiles around there were saying, "The Jews have no ruler or general. Let's destroy them and make the world forget they ever lived."

New American Bible
All the nations round about sought to crush them. They said, “Now that they have no leader or helper, let us make war on them and wipe out their memory from the earth.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then all the heathens that were round about them, sought to destroy them. For they said:

Then all the heathens that were round about them, sought to destroy them. For they said:

1 Maccabees 12:51
Then they that had come after them, seeing that they stood for their lives, returned back.

1 Maccabees 12:52
Whereupon they all came peaceably into the land of Juda and they bewailed Jonathan, and them that had been with him, exceedingly: and Israel mourned with great lamentation.

1 Maccabees 12:54
They have no prince, nor any to help them: now therefore, let us make war upon them, and take away the memory of them from amongst men.

1 Maccabees 13:1
Now Simon heard that Tryphon was gathering together a very great army to invade the land of Juda, and to destroy it.