2 Esdras 9:37-39

Revised Standard Version

³⁷ the law, however, does not perish but remains in its glory.”

The Vision of a Weeping Woman

³⁸ When I said these things in my heart, I lifted up my eyes^[a] and saw a woman on my right, and behold, she was mourning and weeping with a loud voice, and was deeply grieved at heart, and her clothes were rent, and there were ashes on her head. ³⁹ Then I dismissed the thoughts with which I had been engaged, and turned to her