IV Maccabees 8:9

9 Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness.

IV Maccabees 8:9 In-Context

7 and, conforming to the Greek mode of life, alter your rule, and revel in youth's delights.

8 For if you provoke me by your disobedience, you will compel me to destroy you, every one, with terrible punishments by tortures.

9 Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness.

10 Will you not reason upon this—that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in tortures?

11 Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat.