8 Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing. (WEB) 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)
4 Maccabees 16:8–10
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2 Esdras 10:11–13
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Testament of Zebulun 2:35–37
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