2 Esdras 10:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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; 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”;