6 “Ah! I am wretched and many times miserable, who having born seven sons, have become the mother of none. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:6
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4 Maccabees 16:9–11
9 Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I will not see your children, nor have the joy of being a grandmother. (WEB) 10 Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows! (WEB) 11 Nor, should I die, wil… (WEB)
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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.
4 Maccabees 15:23–25
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Baruch 4:31–33
31 Miserable are those who afflicted you and rejoiced at your fall. (WEB) 32 Miserable are the cities which your children served. Miserable is she who received your sons. (WEB) 33 For as she rejoiced at your fall and was glad of your ruin, so she will be grieved at her own desolati… (WEB)
1 Kings 3:20–22
20 So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom. 21 The next morning, when I got up to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I examined him, I realized…
2 Baruch 10:13–15
13 And you, ye bridegrooms, enter not in, And let not the brides adorn themselves with garlands And, ye women, pray not that ye may bear. (2BA) 14 For the barren shall above all rejoice, And those who have no sons shall be glad, And those who have sons shall have anguish. (2BA) 15 … (2BA)
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