¹⁸ as he promised through the law. We have hope in God that he will soon have mercy on us and will gather us from everywhere under heaven into his holy place, for he has rescued us from great evils and has purified the place.^(A)

¹⁷ keeping before their eyes the lawless outrage that the nations^[a] had committed against the holy place and the torture of the derided city, as well as the overthrow of their ancestral way of life.^(A)