2 Maccabees 7:26-28

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁶ And when he had exhorted her with many words, she promised that she would counsel her son.

²⁷ So bending herself towards him, mocking the cruel tyrant, she said in her own language: My son, have pity upon me, that bore thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age.

²⁸ I beseech thee, my son, look upon heaven and earth, and all that is in them: and consider that God made them out of nothing, and mankind also: