9
Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I shall not see your children, nor be felicitated as a grandmother.
7
O seven useless childbirths, and seven profitless periods of labour, and fruitless givings of suck, and miserable nursings at the breast.
8
Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing.
9
Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I shall not see your children, nor be felicitated as a grandmother.
10
Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows!
11
Nor, should I die, shall I have a son to bury me. But with such a lament as this the holy and God-fearing mother bewailed none of them.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.