2 Esdras 10:12

12 Perhaps you say to me, ‘My lamentation isn't like that of the earth, because I lost the fruit of my womb, which I bore with pains and brought forth with sorrows.

2 Esdras 10:12 In-Context

10 From her, from the beginning, all have been born and others will come. Look, nearly all go to ruin, and their multitude is doomed to destruction.

11 Who then ought to mourn the more? Shouldn't she who has lost such a great multitude rather than you, who grieve for one?

12 Perhaps you say to me, ‘My lamentation isn't like that of the earth, because I lost the fruit of my womb, which I bore with pains and brought forth with sorrows.

13 The earth, however, is just following the way of the earth; the multitude that is present on it goes as it came.'

14 I would then say to you, ‘As you gave birth with grief, so also from the beginning the earth yielded its fruit, humanity, to him who made it.'