4 Maccabees 16:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁰ Alas, I who had so many and beautiful children am a widow and alone, with many sorrows.^{[a] 11} And when I die, I shall have none of my sons to bury me.’

¹² Yet that holy and God-fearing mother did not wail with such a lament for any of them, nor did she dissuade any of them from dying, nor did she grieve as they were dying.