2 Esdras 10:10-12

Common English Bible

¹⁰ From her, from the beginning, all have been born and others will come. Look, nearly all go to ruin, and their multitude is doomed to destruction. ¹¹ Who then ought to mourn the more? Shouldn’t she who has lost such a great multitude rather than you, who grieve for one? ¹² Perhaps you say to me, ‘My lamentation isn’t like that of the earth, because I lost the fruit of my womb, which I bore with pains and brought forth with sorrows.