2 Maccabees 9:11–17

^11tHere therefore, being plagued, he began to leave off his great pride, and to come to the knowledge of himself by the ^uscourge of God, his pain increasing every ^wmoment. ¹²And when he himself could not abide his own smell, he said these words, ^xIt is meet to be subject unto God, and that a man that is mortal should not proudly think of himself, as if he were God. ¹³This wicked person vowed also unto the ^yLord, ^zwho now no more would have mercy upon him, saying thus, ¹⁴That ^athe holy city (^bto the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place,) he would set at liberty: ¹⁵and as touching the Jews, whom he had judged not worthy so much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be devoured of the fowls and wild beasts, he would make them all equals to the citizens of Athens: ¹⁶and the holy temple, ^cwhich before he had spoiled, he would garnish with goodly ^dgifts, and restore all the holy vessels with many more, and ^eout of his own revenue defray the charges belonging to the sacrifices: ¹⁷yea, and that also he would become a Jew himself, and go through all the world that was inhabited, and declare the power of God.