15 Let it be shewn to all the nations that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face away from us; but as you said that you would not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do you fulfil this saying, O Lord.
16 Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome, with the wild beasts, and with his tumultuous power.
17 When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army.
18 Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down and were visible to all but the Jews.
19 And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies’ host with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters.
20 And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralysed the vehemence of his spirit.
21 They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them.