2 Esdras 10:12

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

2 Esdras 10:12 In-Context

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

14 that from the time God created the earth she has suffered as much in producing human beings for God as you did in childbirth.