2 Maccabees 7:37DRA
Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 37 of 42
"But I, like my brethren, offer up my life and my body for the laws of our fathers: calling upon God to be speedily merciful to our nation, and that thou by torments and stripes mayst confess that he alone is God."
In context
35For thou hast not yet escaped the judgment of the almighty God, who beholdeth all things.
36For my brethren, having now undergone a short pain, are under the covenant of eternal life: but thou by the judgment of God shalt receive just punishment for thy pride.
37But I, like my brethren, offer up my life and my body for the laws of our fathers: calling upon God to be speedily merciful to our nation, and that thou by torments and stripes mayst confess that he alone is God.
38But in me and in my brethren the wrath of the Almighty, which hath justly been brought upon all our nation, shall cease.
39Then the king being incensed with anger, raged against him more cruelly than all the rest, taking it grievously that he was mocked.