4 Maccabees 18:19-24

19 "I kill and I make alive: this is your life and the length of your days.' "

20 O bitter was that day—and yet not bitter—when that bitter tyrant of the Greeks quenched fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, and in his burning rage brought those seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapult and back again to more tortures,

21 pierced the pupils of their eyes and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with various tortures.

22 For these crimes divine justice pursued and will pursue the accursed tyrant.

23 But the sons of Abraham with their victorious mother are gathered together into the chorus of the fathers, and have received pure and immortal souls from God,

24 to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Footnotes

• [a]. Other ancient authorities read [to all his]
• [b]. Other ancient authorities read [victorious]