2 Esdras 10:13

13 but the earth not so; for the multitude present in it, according to the course of the earth, is gone as it came'--

2 Esdras 10:13 In-Context

11 Who then should make more mourning, if not she who hath lost so great a multitude, and not thou who art sorry but for one?

12 But 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 bore with sorrows,

13 but the earth not so; for the multitude present in it, according to the course of the earth, is gone as it came'--

14 then say I unto thee, `As thou hast brought forth with labor, even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely man, ever since the beginning, unto Him that made her.'

15 Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with good courage that which hath befallen thee.