3 Maccabees 7:8-10

Revised Standard Version

⁸ We also have ordered each and every one to return to his own home, with no one in any place^[a] doing them harm at all or reproaching them for the irrational things that have happened. ⁹ For you should know that if we devise any evil against them or cause them any grief at all, we always shall have not man but the Ruler over every power, the Most High God, in everything and inescapably as an antagonist to avenge such acts. Farewell.”

The Jews Return Home with Joy

¹⁰ Upon receiving this letter the Jews did not immediately hurry to make their departure, but they requested of the king that at their own hands those of the Jewish nation who had willfully transgressed against the holy God and the law of God should receive the punishment they deserved.