Good News Translation
At first I asked myself why these great waves of trouble were sweeping over me, since I have been kind and well-liked during my reign.

New Revised Standard Version
I said to myself, ‘To what distress I have come! And into what a great flood I now am plunged! For I was kind and beloved in my power.’

Contemporary English Version
and keep saying to myself, "How did you ever get into such a mess? Why are you up to your neck in troubles? After all, you're a kind ruler, and everyone likes you."

New American Bible
I said to myself: ‘Into what tribulation have I come, and in what floods of sorrow am I now! Yet I was kindly and beloved in my rule.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
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!

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 6:9
And he remained there many days: for great grief came more and more upon him, and he made account that he should die.

1 Maccabees 6:10
And he called for all his friends, and said to them: Sleep is gone from my eyes, and I am fallen away, and my heart is cast down for anxiety:

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 6:13
I know, therefore, that for this cause these evils have found me: and behold I perish with great grief in a strange land.