2 Esdras 9:40-42

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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.”

⁴² I said to her, “What has happened to you? Tell me.”