4 Maccabees 16:11

11 Nor when I die, shall I have any of my sons to bury me."

4 Maccabees 16:11 In-Context

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 Nor when I die, shall I have any of my sons to bury me."

12 Yet the sacred and God-fearing mother did not wail with such a lament for any of them, nor did she dissuade any of them from dying, nor did she grieve as they were dying,

13 but, as though having a mind like adamant and giving rebirth for immortality to the whole number of her sons, she implored them and urged them on to death for the sake of religion.