2 Maccabees 7:37-39

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁷ But 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.

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

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