2 Esdras 10:9

9 For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee that it is she which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her.

2 Esdras 10:9 In-Context

7 How that Zion our mother is full of all heaviness, and much humbled, mourning very sorely?
8 And now, seeing we all mourn and are sad, for we are all in heaviness, art thou grieved for one son?
9 For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee that it is she which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her.
10 For out of her came all at the first, and out of her shall all others come; and behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and a multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
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?
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