2 Esdras 10:4-6

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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.”^(A)

⁵ Then I broke off the reflections with which I was still engaged and answered her in anger and said,^{(B) 6} “You most foolish of women, do you not see our mourning and what has happened to us?