36. For these our brethren, having endured a short pain that brings everlasting life, have now died under God’s covenant; But you, through the judgement of God, shall receive in just measure the penalties of your arrogancy.
37. But I, as my brethren, give up both body and soul for the laws of our fathers, calling upon God that he may speedily become gracious to the nation; and that you amidst trials and plagues may confess that he alone is God;
38. and that in me and my brethren you may stay the wrath of the Almighty, which has been justly brought upon our whole race.
39. But the king, falling into a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, being exasperated at his mocking.
40. So he also died pure from pollution, putting his whole trust in the Lord.
41. And last of all after her sons the mother died.
42. Let it then suffice to have said thus much concerning the enforcement of sacrificial feasts and the king’s exceeding barbarities.