17 O you only woman who have produced perfect holiness! (WEB) 18 Your firstborn, expiring, didn’t turn you, nor the second, looking miserable in his torments, nor the third, breathing out his soul. (WEB) 19 You didn’t weep when you saw each of their eyes looking sternly at their tortures, and their nostrils foreboding death! (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:17–19
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4 Maccabees 16:10–12
10 Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows! (WEB) 11 Nor, should I die, will I have a son to bury me.” But with such a lament as this, the holy and God-fearing mother wept for none of them. (WEB) 12 Nor did she divert any of them from death… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 17:2–4
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Odes of Solomon 42:22–24
22 And bring us out from the bonds of darkness: and open to us the door by which we shall come out to thee. (ODE) 23 For we see that our death has not touched thee. (ODE) 24 Let us also be redeemed with thee: for thou art our Redeemer. (ODE)
2 Esdras 15:52–54
52 Would I have dealt with you with such jealousy,” says the Lord, (WEB) 53 “if you had not always slain my chosen, exalting and clapping your hands, and talking about their dead when you were drunk? (WEB) 54 “Beautify your face! (WEB)
2 Esdras 10:11–13
11 Who then should mourn more, she who has lost so great a multitude, or you, who are grieved but for one? (WEB) 12 But if you say to me, ‘My lamentation is not like the earth’s, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows… (WEB)
Proverbs 31:1–3
1 These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him: 2 What shall I say, O my son? What, O son of my womb? What, O son of my vows? 3 Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
2 Esdras 10:5–7
5 Then I left the reflections I was engaged in, and answered her in anger, (WEB) 6 “You most foolish woman, don’t you see our mourning, and what has happened to us? (WEB) 7 For Zion the mother of us all is full of sorrow, and much humbled. (WEB)
Book of Enoch 12:5–6
5 “Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as †they† delight themselves in †their† children, (ENO) 6 The murder of †their† beloved ones shall †they† see, and over the destruction of †their† children… (ENO)
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