2 Esdras 10:49

49 Indeed, you saw her likeness, how she mourns her son, and you began to console her over these things that had happened. (These things were to be shown to you.)

2 Esdras 10:49 In-Context

47 As for what she said to you, that she nourished him with labor, this was the time that Jerusalem was inhabited.

48 And as for what she said to you, that her son came into his wedding chamber and died and that misfortune happened to her, this is the destruction that happened to Jerusalem.

49 Indeed, you saw her likeness, how she mourns her son, and you began to console her over these things that had happened. (These things were to be shown to you.)

50 Now the Most High, seeing that you are sincerely saddened and that you suffer for her with all your heart, has shown you the splendor of her glory and the beauty with which she is adorned.

51 For this reason I told you to remain in the field where no house is built:

Footnotes

• [a] Lat; other versions omit (These things were to be shown to you.)