Good News Translation
"I once intended to level Jerusalem to the ground and make that holy city a graveyard full of Jews," he said, "but now I declare it a free city.

New Revised Standard Version
that the holy city, which he was hurrying to level to the ground and to make a cemetery, he was now declaring to be free;

Contemporary English Version
Recently, I planned to trample down the holy city of Jerusalem and to turn it into a pile of Jewish bones. But now I give you my word that Jerusalem will be a free city.

New American Bible
that the holy city, toward which he had been hurrying with the intention of leveling it to the ground and making it a common graveyard, he would now set free;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place, he now desireth to make free:

And the city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place, he now desireth to make free:

2 Maccabees 9:12
And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God.

2 Maccabees 9:13
Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy.

2 Maccabees 9:15
And the Jews, whom he said he would not account worthy to be so much as buried, but would give them up to be devoured by the birds and wild beasts, and would utterly destroy them with their children, he now promiseth to make equal with the Athenians.

2 Maccabees 9:16
The holy temple also, which before he had spoiled, he promised to adorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices.