Holy Scripture
2 Maccabees 6:14
Source: Septuagint
Original
14For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fullness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,
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12Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.
13For it is a token of his great goodness, when wicked doers are not suffered any longer time, but forthwith punished.
— 2 Maccabees 6:14 —
15lest that, being come to the height of sin, afterward he should take vengeance of us.
16And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.