2 Maccabees 7:16-18

Good News Translation

You have the power to do whatever you want with us, even though you also are mortal. But do not think that God has abandoned our people. ¹⁷ Just wait. God will use his great power to torture you and your descendants.

¹⁸ Then the soldiers took the sixth boy, and just before he died he said,
    Make no mistake. We are suffering what we deserve, because we have sinned against our God. That's why all these terrible things are happening to us.