2 Esdras 9:39-41

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁹ Then I dismissed the thoughts with which I had been engaged, and turned to her ⁴⁰ and said to her, ‘Why are you weeping, and why are you grieved at heart?’

⁴¹ She said to me, ‘Let me alone, my lord, so that I may weep for myself and continue to mourn, for I am greatly embittered in spirit and deeply distressed.’