4 Maccabees 16:5
Source: Septuagint
5For we must consider also this: that, had the woman been faint-hearted, as being their mother, she would have lamented over them; and perhaps might have spoken thus:
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3And not so fierce were the lions round Daniel, nor the furnace of Mishael burning with most vehement fire, as that natural love of children burned within her, when she beheld her seven sons tortured.
4But with the reasoning of religion the mother quenched passions so great and powerful.
— 4 Maccabees 16:5 —
6Ah! wretched I, and many times miserable; who having born seven sons, have become the mother of none.
7O seven useless childbirths, and seven profitless periods of labor, and fruitless givings of suck, and miserable nursings at the breast.