2 Maccabees 7:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ But do not think that thou shalt escape unpunished, for that thou attempted to fight against God.

²⁰ Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God:

²¹ And she bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language, being filled with wisdom: and joining a man's heart to a woman's thought,