2 Esdras 10:12
King James VersionSource notes
“But if thou sayest unto me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows;”
Context
9For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee, that it is she which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her.
10For out of her came all at the first, and out of her shall all others come, and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and a multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
11Who then should make more mourning than she, that hath lost so great a multitude; and not thou, which art sorry but for one?
12But if thou sayest unto me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows;
13But the earth not so: for the multitude present in it according to the course of the earth is gone, as it came:
14Then say I unto thee, Like as thou hast brought forth with labour; even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning unto him that made her.
15Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with a good courage that which hath befallen thee.