2 Esdras 10:11-13

Revised Standard Version

¹¹ Who then ought to mourn the more, she^[a] who lost so great a multitude, or you who are grieving for one? 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’;