2 Maccabees 9:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God.

¹³ Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy.

¹⁴ And the city to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a, common buryingplace, he now desireth to make free.