4 Maccabees 15:16-18

Common English Bible

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! ¹⁸ You didn’t change your direction when your oldest son took his last breath, or when your second son was in torment and looked at you pitifully, or when the third son died.