2 Esdras 12:43-45

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴³ Are not the disasters that have befallen us enough? ⁴⁴ Therefore if you forsake us, how much better it would have been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion. ⁴⁵ For we are no better than those who died there.’ And they wept with a loud voice.

Then I answered them and said,