3 Maccabees 4:6-8

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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 foreign nations.^{(A) 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 feasting and youthful revelry, seeing Hades already lying at their feet.^(B)