2 Maccabees 5:2-4

Wycliffe Bible

² Forsooth it befell, that by each city (or through all the city) of (the) men of Jerusalem, were seen by forty days [or for to be seen forty days], horsemen running about by the air, having golden stoles, and shafts, as companies of knights armed;

³ and courses of horses wisely set by orders, and assailings, or fightings together, for to be made nigh, and movings of shields, and multitude of helmeted men, with (unre)strained swords, and castings of darts, and shining of golden armours, and of all kind of habergeons (or breastplates).

⁴ Wherefore all men prayed, that the monsters, or wonders, tokens of things to coming, be converted [or be (al)together turned] into good.