2 Maccabees 6:15
14. For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,15. Lest that, being come to the height of sin, afterwards he should take vengeance of us.16. And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.
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