2 Esdras 10:3-5

Common English Bible

³ But when all ceased consoling me so that I would be quiet, I got up at night and fled, and I came into this field, as you see. ⁴ Now I plan not to return to the city but to stay here, and I will neither eat nor drink but lament and fast without ceasing, until I die.”

⁵ I abandoned the thoughts that had preoccupied me and responded to her in anger: