4 Maccabees 15:14-16

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¹⁴ This mother, who saw them tortured and burned one by one, for piety’s sake did not change her attitude. ¹⁵ She watched the flesh of her children being consumed by fire, their toes and fingers scattered^[a] on the ground, and the flesh of the head to the chin exposed like masks.

¹⁶ O mother, tried now by more bitter pains than even the birth pangs you suffered for them!