2 Maccabees 7:30–40

³⁰While she was yet speaking these words, the young man said: For whom do you stay? I will not obey the commandment of the king, but the commandment of the law which was given us by Moses.

³¹But thou that hast been the author of all mischief against the Hebrews, shalt not escape the hand of God.

³²For we suffer thus for our sins.

³³And though the Lord, our God, is angry with us a little while, for our chastisement and correction, yet he will be reconciled again to his servants.

³⁴But thou, O wicked, and of all men most flagitious, be not lifted up without cause with vain hopes, whilst thou art raging against his servants.

³⁵For thou hast not yet escaped the judgment of the Almighty God, who beholdeth all things.

³⁶For my brethren having now undergone a short pain, are under the covenant of eternal life: but thou, by the judgment of God, shalt receive just punishment for thy pride.

³⁷But I, like my brethren, offer up my life and my body for the laws of our fathers: calling upon God to be speedily merciful to our nation, and that thou by torments and stripes mayst confess that he alone is God.

³⁸But in me, and in my brethren, the wrath of the Almighty, which hath justly been brought upon all our nation, shall cease.

³⁹Then the king being incensed with anger, raged against him more cruelly than all the rest, taking it grievously that he was mocked.

⁴⁰So this man also died undefiled, wholly trusting in the Lord.