2 Maccabees 6:12-14

Wycliffe Bible

¹² Therefore I beseech them, that shall read this book, that they dread not for adversities; but areckon they those things that befell to be not to perishing, but to [or but for] (the) amending of our kin.

¹³ For why for to not suffer by much time sinners for to do of sentence, [or doom], but anon (or at once) for to give vengeances, is the showing of (his) great benefice.

¹⁴ For why, not as in other nations, the Lord abideth patiently, (so) that when the day of doom shall come, he punish them in (the) plenty of (their) sins, so and in us he ordaineth,