1 Maccabees 2:47-49

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁷ And they pursued after the children of pride, and the work prospered in their hands:

⁴⁸ And they recovered the law out of the hands of the nations, and out of the hands of the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the sinner.

⁴⁹ Now the days drew near that Mathathias should die, and he said to his sons: Now hath pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation: