4 Maccabees 15:21-23

Common English Bible

²¹ The children’s voices calling out to their mother from the midst of their torture held her attention more strongly than the Sirens’ singing or the song of swans captures the attention of those who hear them. ²² How great was the pain that this mother suffered while her sons were being tortured by wheels and hot irons! ²³ However, godly thinking strengthened her to ignore her natural love for her children. Godly thinking created in her a masculine courage in the middle of this suffering.