2 Esdras 10:11

11 So who has more right to mourn, you for your one son, or the earth, which has lost so many?

2 Esdras 10:11 In-Context

9 Ask the earth; let her tell you that she is the one who ought to be mourning for the vast multitudes of people that she has brought to birth.

10 All of us who are living came originally from her, and there are more to come. Almost all of us go straight to destruction - the vast multitude of earth's children are lost.

11 So who has more right to mourn, you for your one son, or the earth, which has lost so many?

12 I know what you are thinking; you think that your sorrow is worse than the earth's. You think that it is only natural for earth's multitudes to live and then die, but you have lost your own flesh and blood which you brought to birth with such trouble and pain. But let me tell you