1Some of the guards said that, when she herself was about to be seized to be killed, she threw herself into the fire so that no one would touch her body.
2O mother, with her seven sons, who destroyed the violence of the tyrant and frustrated his evil designs and showed the nobility of faith!
3For like a roof courageously placed over the columns of your sons, you withstood without trembling the earthquake of tortures.
4Take courage, therefore, O sanctified mother, with firm hope in God!
5The moon in heaven with the stars does not remain so honored as you who illuminated the way of piety for your seven star-sons.
6You remain honored before God and fixed in heaven with them.
7For your offspring was worthy of Abraham.
8And if it were permitted to paint the story of your piety as in a painting, would not those who beheld the mother of seven sons enduring various tortures unto death for the sake of piety tremble?
9It would also be worthy to inscribe on her tomb, for the memory of our nation, these words:
10Here lies an aged mother and an Israelite woman, who had seven sons and was of priestly family. Remembered is the victory of the people who buried them. And they were avenged in the name of their nation.