2 Esdras 9:36-38

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁶ For we who have received the law and sinned will perish, as well as our hearts that received it; ³⁷ the law, however, does not perish but survives in its glory.’

The Vision of a Weeping Woman

³⁸ When I said these things in my heart, I looked around,^[a] and on my right I saw a woman; she was mourning and weeping with a loud voice, and was deeply grieved at heart; her clothes were torn, and there were ashes on her head.