4 Maccabees 15:17

17 How the woman gave birth alone to such perfect devotion!

4 Maccabees 15:17 In-Context

15 She watched as the fire devoured her children's flesh, their fingers and toes scattered all over the ground, the flesh of their faces torn off like masks down to their chins.

16 How the mother was tested by pains far worse than the labor pains she suffered for them!

17 How the woman gave birth alone to such perfect devotion!

18 You didn't change your direction when your oldest son took his last breath, or when your second son was in torment and looked at you pitifully, or when the third son died.

19 You didn't cry out loud when you looked into each one's eyes, gripped by their own pain, or when you saw on the faces the signs of death approaching.