³² For we are suffering because of our own sins.^{(A) 33} And if our living Lord is angry for a little while, to rebuke and discipline us, he will again be reconciled with his own servants.^{(B) 34} But you, unholy wretch, you most defiled of all mortals, do not be elated in vain and puffed up by uncertain hopes when you raise your hand against the children of heaven.^{(C) 35} You have not yet escaped the judgment of the almighty, all-seeing God. ³⁶ For our brothers, after enduring a brief suffering for everlasting life, have fallen under God’s covenant, but you, by the judgment of God, will receive just punishment for your arrogance.^{(D) 37} I, like my brothers, give up body and life for the laws of our ancestors, appealing to God to show mercy soon to our nation and by trials and plagues to make you confess that he alone is God,^{(E) 38} and through me and my brothers to bring to an end the wrath of the Almighty that has justly fallen on our whole nation.”^(F)

²⁸ Be merciful to your people, and let our punishment suffice for them. ²⁹ Make my blood their purification, and take my life in exchange for theirs.”

⁸ Such should be those who are administrators of the law, shielding it with their own blood and noble sweat in sufferings even to death.

²¹ the tyrant was punished, and the homeland purified—they having become, as it were, a ransom for the sin of our nation.^{(A) 22} And through the blood of those pious ones and their death as an atoning sacrifice, divine Providence preserved Israel that previously had been mistreated.