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, nor grieve for them as for the dead. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:10–12
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2 Esdras 10:11–13
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4 Maccabees 15:17–19
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Tobit 3:8–10
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Isaiah 51:17–19
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