2 Esdras 10:7
King James VersionSource notes
“How that Sion our mother is full of all heaviness, and much humbled, mourning very sore?”
Context
4And I do now purpose not to return into the city, but here to stay, and neither to eat nor drink, but continually to mourn and to fast until I die.
5Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and spake to her in anger, saying,
6Thou foolish woman above all other, seest thou not our mourning, and what happeneth unto us?
7How that Sion our mother is full of all heaviness, and much humbled, mourning very sore?
8And now, seeing we all mourn and are sad, for we are all in heaviness, art thou grieved for one son?
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.