2 Esdras 10:4

4 I have decided never to return to that town. I am going to stay here in constant mourning, neither eating nor drinking anything until I die."

2 Esdras 10:4 In-Context

2 So we put out all the wedding lamps, and all my neighbors came to comfort me. I remained in control of myself until the evening of the second day,

3 when they all left. That night I got up and came out to this field, as you see.

4 I have decided never to return to that town. I am going to stay here in constant mourning, neither eating nor drinking anything until I die."

5 When she told me this, I put aside my own thoughts and spoke sharply to her:

6 "You are the most foolish woman I ever met. Don't you see what our people are suffering? Don't you know all that has happened to us?