4 Maccabees 16:10-12

Revised Standard Version

¹⁰ Alas, I who had so many and beautiful children am a widow and alone, with many sorrows.^{[a] 11} Nor when I die, shall I have any of my sons to bury me.”

¹² Yet the sacred 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,