2 Maccabees 6:16
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.17. But let this that we at spoken be for a warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.
2 Maccabees თავი 6