2 Maccabees 7:6-8

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶ Saying: The Lord God will look upon the truth, and will take pleasure in us, as Moses declared in the profession of the canticle: And In his servants he will take pleasure.

⁷ So when the first was dead after this manner, they brought the next to make him a, mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of his head with the hair, they asked him if he would eat, before he were punished throughout the whole body in every limb.

⁸ But he answered in his own language, and said: I will not do it. Wherefore he also in the next place, received the torments of the first: