2 Maccabees 6:14-16

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁴ For, not as with other nations (whom the Lord patiently expecteth, that when the day of judgment shall come, he may punish them in the fulness of their sins:)

¹⁵ Doth he also deal with us, so as to suffer our sins to come to their height, and then take vengeance on us.

¹⁶ And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: but though he chastise his people with adversity, he forsaketh them not.