Good News Translation
And this turned out to be the source of all their troubles, for the very people whose ways they admired and whose customs they tried to imitate became their enemies and oppressed them.

New Revised Standard Version
For this reason heavy disaster overtook them, and those whose ways of living they admired and wished to imitate completely became their enemies and punished them.

Contemporary English Version
This love of the Greek way of life caused the downfall of our country, when these foreign rulers became our enemies and punished our nation. They did this, even though many Jews liked and tried to follow their way of life.

New American Bible
For this reason they found themselves in serious trouble: the very people whose manner of life they emulated, and whom they desired to imitate in everything, became their enemies and oppressors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the sake of which they incurred a dangerous contention, and followed earnestly their ordinances, and in all things they coveted to be like them, who were their enemies and murderers.

For the sake of which they incurred a dangerous contention, and followed earnestly their ordinances, and in all things they coveted to be like them, who were their enemies and murderers.

2 Maccabees 4:14
Insomuch that the priests were not now occupied about the offices of the altar, but despising the temple and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the games, and of the unlawful allowance thereof, and of the exercise of the discus.

2 Maccabees 4:15
And setting nought by the honours of their fathers, they esteemed the Grecian glories for the best:

2 Maccabees 4:17
For acting wickedly against the laws of God doth not pass unpunished: but this the time following will declare.

2 Maccabees 4:18
Now when the game that was used every fifth year was kept at Tyre, the king being present,