2 Esdras 9:41
King James VersionSource notes
“And she said unto me, Sir, let me alone, that I may bewail myself, and add unto my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.”
Context
38And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.
39Then let I my thoughts go that I was in, and turned me unto her,
40And said unto her, Wherefore weepest thou? why art thou so grieved in thy mind?
41And she said unto me, Sir, let me alone, that I may bewail myself, and add unto my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.
42And I said unto her, What aileth thee? tell me.
43She said unto me, I thy servant have been barren, and had no child, though I had an husband thirty years,
44And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night, and every hour, but make my, prayer to the Highest.