20 Let your mercies quickly go before us. Grant us peace, that the downcast and broken hearted may praise you with their mouth.” (WEB) 21 At that time God, who sees all things, who is beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable, and scourged the man who was greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence. (WEB) 22 Shaking him back and forth as a reed is shaken with the wind, he threw him down on the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed, and by a righteous judgment deprived of the ability to speak. (WEB)
3 Maccabees 2:20–22
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2 Maccabees 3:28–30
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2 Maccabees 9:10–12
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3 Maccabees 5:50–51
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Judith 6:18–20
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