2 Esdras 10:11-13

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¹¹ Who, then, ought to mourn the more: she who lost so great a multitude or you who are grieving for one alone? ¹² But if you say to me, ‘My lamentation is not like the earth’s, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth in pain and bore in sorrow,^{(A) 13} but it is with the earth according to the way of the earth: the multitude that is now in it goes as it came,’