4 Maccabees 15:15-17

Common English Bible

¹⁵ She watched as the fire devoured her children’s flesh, their fingers and toes scattered all over the ground, the flesh of their faces torn off like masks down to their chins.

¹⁶ How the mother was tested by pains far worse than the labor pains she suffered for them! ¹⁷ How the woman gave birth alone to such perfect devotion!