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4 Maccabees 16:6-10 Common English Bible (CEB)

6. “Look at how miserable I am with one sorrow piled on another! I gave birth to seven children, and now I’m nobody’s mother!

7. “Look at how I gave birth seven times all for nothing! Seven pregnancies, without anything to show for it! Years of fruitless childcare and years of miserable nursing!

8. My sons, I bore the long pains of labor for you and even more stress in raising you for no reason!

9. "Look at my children! Some aren’t married, others are married, but none of them have children! Now I will never see your children or have the pleasure of being a grandmother.

10. I had so many and such beautiful children, and now I’m a widow and left all alone in my many sorrows.

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