2 Maccabees 6:16

16 And therefore He never withdraweth His mercy from us; and though He punish with adversity, yet doth He never forsake His people.

2 Maccabees 6:16 In-Context

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

15 lest that, having come to the height of sin, afterwards He should take vengeance on us.

16 And therefore He never withdraweth His mercy from us; and though He punish with adversity, yet doth He never forsake His people.

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

18 Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man and of a well-favored countenance, was constrained to open his mouth and to eat swine's flesh.