2 Maccabees 7:30-32

New Catholic Bible

³⁰ She had barely finished speaking when the young man said: “What are you waiting for? I will not obey the king’s command. I choose rather to obey the ordinance of the law that was given to our ancestors through Moses. ³¹ However, you, who have devised every kind of evil against the Hebrews, will certainly not escape the hands of God. ³² We are suffering as the result of our own sins,