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2 Machabees 3:21

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

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): erat enim misera commistæ multitudinis, et magni sacerdotis in agone constituti exspectatio.
Septuagint (Swete): ἐλεεῖν δὲ τὴν τοῦ πλήθους πανμιγῆ πρόπτωσιν, τήν τε τοῦ μεγάλως ἀγωνιῶντος ἀρχιερέως προσδοκίαν.

Haydock's commentary

Expectation. Greek, "prostration." (Haydock) It was not unusual to see the Jews fall prostrate on such occasions, to move God or the enemy to pity, ver. 15., and Judith iv. 9. (Calmet)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.