2 Esdras 10:7

7 Zion the mother of us all is afflicted in sadness and utterly dejected. Grieve mightily

2 Esdras 10:7 In-Context

5 I abandoned the thoughts that had preoccupied me and responded to her in anger:

6 "Most foolish of all women, don't you see our grief and what has befallen us?

7 Zion the mother of us all is afflicted in sadness and utterly dejected. Grieve mightily

8 now because we all grieve, and be sorrowful because we are all sorrowful. But you are mourning only for one son!

9 Ask the earth, and she will tell you that she is the one who should mourn, since so many have sprouted upon her.