4 Maccabees 16:6-8

Common English Bible

⁶ “Look at how miserable I am with one sorrow piled on another! I gave birth to seven children, and now I’m nobody’s mother!

⁷ “Look at how I gave birth seven times all for nothing! Seven pregnancies, without anything to show for it! Years of fruitless childcare and years of miserable nursing! ⁸ My sons, I bore the long pains of labor for you and even more stress in raising you for no reason!