2 Esdras 10:16
King James VersionSource notes
“For if thou shalt acknowledge the determination of God to be just, thou shalt both receive thy son in time, and shalt be commended among women.”
Context
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.
16For if thou shalt acknowledge the determination of God to be just, thou shalt both receive thy son in time, and shalt be commended among women.
17Go thy way then into the city to thine husband.
18And she said unto me, That will I not do: I will not go into the city, but here will I die.
19So I proceeded to speak further unto her, and said,