4
Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm hope of your steadfastness with God.
5
Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as thou art established honourable before God, and fixed in the firmament with thy sons who thou didst illuminate with religion to the stars.
6
For thy bearing of children was after the fashion of a child of Abraham.
7
And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of thy story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even unto death.
8
And it had been a worth thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation,
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.