4 Maccabees 16:8

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

4 Maccabees 16:8 In-Context

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.