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) 20 When you saw children’s flesh heaped upon children’s flesh that had been torn off, heads decapitated upon heads, dead falling upon the dead, and a choir of children turned through torture into a burying ground, you didn’t lament. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:18–20
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