4 Maccabees 16:8-10

Common English Bible

⁸ My sons, I bore the long pains of labor for you and even more stress in raising you for no reason!

⁹ “Look at my children! Some aren’t married, others are married, but none of them have children! Now I will never see your children or have the pleasure of being a grandmother. ¹⁰ I had so many and such beautiful children, and now I’m a widow and left all alone in my many sorrows.