2 Esdras 10:5-7

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⁵ Then I broke off the reflections with which I was still engaged and answered her in anger and said,^{(A) 6} “You most foolish of women, do you not see our mourning and what has happened to us? ⁷ For Zion, the mother of us all, is in deep grief and great distress.^(B)