2 Maccabees 6:15

¹³For it is a token of his great goodness, when wicked doers are not suffered any long time, but forthwith punished.

¹⁴For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,

— 2 Maccabees 6:15 —

¹⁶And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.

¹⁷But let this that we at spoken be for a warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.