2 Maccabees 9:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 At last, broken in spirit, he began to give up his excessive arrogance, and to gain some understanding, under the scourge of God, for he was racked with pain unceasingly. 12 When he could no longer bear his own stench, he said, “It is right to be subject to God, and not to think one’s mortal self equal to God.”(A) 13 Then this vile man vowed to him who would never again show him mercy, the Sovereign Lord,
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