4 Maccabees 16:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷ O seven childbirths all in vain, seven profitless pregnancies, fruitless nurturings and wretched nursings! ⁸ In vain, my sons, I endured many birth pangs for you, and the more grievous anxieties of your upbringing. ⁹ Alas for my children, some unmarried, others married and without offspring.^[a] I shall not see your children or have the happiness of being called grandmother.