Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 16:9
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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7O seven useless childbirths, and seven profitless periods of labor, and fruitless givings of suck, and miserable nursings at the breast.
8Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing.
— 4 Maccabees 16:9 —
10Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows!
11Nor, should I die, shall I have a son to bury me. But with such a lament as this the holy and God-fearing mother bewailed none of them.