4 Maccabees 15:14-16

Revised Standard Version

¹⁴ This mother, who saw them tortured and burned one by one, because of religion did not change her attitude. ¹⁵ She watched the flesh of her children 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!