4 Maccabees 16:10

¹⁰ Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows! (WEB)

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4 Maccabees 16:5–7

⁵ For we must consider also this: that, had the woman been faint hearted, as being their mother, she would have lamented over them, and perhaps might have spoken thus: (WEB) ⁶ “Ah! I am wretched and many times miserable, who having born seven sons, have become the mothe… (WEB)

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¹¹ For with joy I nourished them, but sent them away with weeping and mourning. (WEB) ¹² Let no man rejoice over me, a widow and forsaken by many. For the sins of my children, I am left desolate, because they turned away from the law of God (WEB) ¹³ and had no regard for his statut… (WEB)

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2 Esdras 2:3–5

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2 Esdras 10:5–7

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Baruch 4:31–33

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