2 Maccabees 7:6-8

Good News Translation

The Lord God is looking on and understands our suffering. Moses made this clear when he wrote a song condemning those who had abandoned the Lord. He said,
The Lord will have mercy on those who serve him.

⁷ After the first brother had died in this way, the soldiers started amusing themselves with the second one by tearing the hair and skin from his head. Then they asked him,
    Now will you eat this pork, or do you want us to chop off your hands and feet one by one?

⁸ He replied in his native language,
    I will never eat it! So the soldiers tortured him, just as they had the first one,