2 Esdras 10:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³ But when all of them had stopped consoling me, encouraging me to be quiet, I got up in the night and fled, and I came to this field, as you see. ⁴ And now I intend not to return to the town, but to stay here; I will neither eat nor drink, but will mourn and fast continually until I die.’

⁵ Then I broke off the reflections with which I was still engaged, and answered her in anger and said,