3 Maccabees 7:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷ and since we have taken into account the friendly and firm goodwill that they had towards us and our ancestors, we justly have acquitted them of every charge of whatever kind. ⁸ We also have ordered all people to return to their own homes, with no one in any place^[a] doing them harm at all or reproaching them for the irrational things that have happened. ⁹ For you should know that if we devise any evil against them or cause them any grief at all, we always shall have not a mortal but the Ruler over every power, the Most High God, in everything and inescapably as an antagonist to avenge such acts. Farewell.’