3 Maccabees 2:19-21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁹ Wipe away our sins and disperse our errors and reveal your mercy at this hour. ²⁰ Speedily let your mercies overtake us, put praises in the mouths of those who are downcast and broken in spirit, and give us peace.”

God’s Punishment of Ptolemy

²¹ Thereupon God, who oversees all things, the first Father of all, holy among the holy ones, having heard the lawful supplication, scourged him who had exalted himself in insolence and audacity.^(A)