Good News Translation
What a pitiful sight it was to see the High Priest in such great agony and frustration and to see everyone in the city confused and lying face down on the ground.

New Revised Standard Version
There was something pitiable in the prostration of the whole populace and the anxiety of the high priest in his great anguish.

Contemporary English Version
It was a dreadful sight to see the high priest in such anguish and agony and the people lying face down on the ground.

New American Bible
It was pitiful to see the populace prostrate everywhere and the high priest full of dread and anguish.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest, who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity.

For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest, who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity.

2 Maccabees 3:19
And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows.

2 Maccabees 3:20
And all holding up their hands towards heaven made supplication.

2 Maccabees 3:22
And these indeed called upon almighty God, to preserve the things that had been committed to them safe and sure for those that had committed them.

2 Maccabees 3:23
But Heliodorus executed that which he had resolved on, himself being present in the same place with his guard about the treasury.