2 Maccabees 7:36-42
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36 For our brethren, who now have suffered a short pain, are dead under God's covenant of everlasting life: but thou, through the judgment of God, shalt receive just punishment for thy pride.
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37 But I, as my brethren, offer up my body and life for the laws of our fathers, beseeching God that he would speedily be merciful unto our nation; and that thou by torments and plagues mayest confess, that he alone is God;
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38 And that in me and my brethren the wrath of the Almighty, which is justly brought upon our nation, may cease.
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39 Than the king' being in a rage, handed him worse than all the rest, and took it grievously that he was mocked.
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40 So this man died undefiled, and put his whole trust in the Lord.
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41 Last of all after the sons the mother died.
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42 Let this be enough now to have spoken concerning the idolatrous feasts, and the extreme tortures.