3 Maccabees 4:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶ And young women who had just entered the bridal chamber^[a] to share married life exchanged joy for wailing, their myrrh-perfumed hair sprinkled with ashes, and were carried away unveiled, all together raising a lament instead of a wedding-song, as they were torn by the harsh treatment of the heathen.^{[b] 7} In bonds and in public view they were violently dragged along as far as the place of embarkation. ⁸ Their husbands, in the prime of youth, their necks encircled with ropes instead of garlands, spent the remaining days of their marriage festival in lamentations instead of good cheer and youthful revelry, seeing death immediately before them.^[c]