2 Esdras 10:12-14

Revised Standard Version

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’; ¹⁴ then I say to you, ‘As you brought forth in sorrow, so the earth also has from the beginning given her fruit, that is, man, to him who made her.’