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4 Maccabees 15:21

Not so do siren melodies or songs of swans attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling on your mother in the midst of torments!

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
Not so do siren melodies, or songs of swans, attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling upon your mother in the midst of torments!
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
LXX2012View canonical →
Not so do siren melodies, or songs of swans, attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling upon your mother in the midst of torments!
Septuagint in American English (2012)