2 Esdras 10:9
King James VersionSource notes
“For 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.”
Context
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.
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;