Good News Translation
"In the year 169, when Demetrius the Second was king of Syria, we wrote to tell you about the persecution and the hard times that came upon us in the years after Jason revolted against authority in the Holy Land.

New Revised Standard Version
In the reign of Demetrius, in the one hundred sixty-ninth year, we Jews wrote to you, in the critical distress that came upon us in those years after Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom

Contemporary English Version
In the year 169 of the Syrian kingdom, when Demetrius was our ruler, we wrote you a letter in which we said: "We have had terrible troubles ever since Jason the high priest and his troops rebelled against our country and its leaders.

New American Bible
In the reign of Demetrius, the one hundred and sixty-ninth year, we Jews wrote to you during the height of the distress that overtook us in those years after Jason and his followers revolted against the holy land and the kingdom,

Douay-Rheims Bible
When Demetrius reigned, in the year one hundred and sixty-nine, we Jews wrote to you in the trouble and violence that came upon us in those years, after Jason withdrew himself from the holy land, and from the kingdom.

When Demetrius reigned, in the year one hundred and sixty-nine, we Jews wrote to you in the trouble and violence that came upon us in those years, after Jason withdrew himself from the holy land, and from the kingdom.

2 Maccabees 1:5
May he hear your prayers, and be reconciled unto you, and never forsake you in the evil time.

2 Maccabees 1:6
And now here we are praying for you.

2 Maccabees 1:8
They burnt the gate, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed to the Lord, and were heard, and we offered sacrifices, and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.

2 Maccabees 1:9
And now celebrate ye the days of Scenopegia in the month of Casleu.