Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 16:8
Source: Septuagint
Original
8Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing.
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In context
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.
— 4 Maccabees 16:8 —
9Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I shall not see your children, nor be felicitated as a grandmother.
10Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows!