4 Maccabees 16:9

9 Alas for my children, some unmarried, others married and without offspring. I shall not see your children or have the happiness of being called grandmother.

4 Maccabees 16:9 In-Context

7 O seven childbirths all in vain, seven profitless pregnancies, fruitless nurturings and wretched nursings!

8 In vain, my sons, I endured many birth pangs for you, and the more grievous anxieties of your upbringing.

9 Alas for my children, some unmarried, others married and without offspring. I shall not see your children or have the happiness of being called grandmother.

10 Alas, I who had so many and beautiful children am a widow and alone, with many sorrows.

11 And when I die, I shall have none of my sons to bury me."

Footnotes

• [a] Gk [without benefit]