2 Esdras 10:12

12 But if you say to me, "My lamentation is not like the earth's, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth in pain and bore in sorrow;

2 Esdras 10:12 In-Context

10 From the beginning all have been born of her, and others will come; and, lo, almost all go to perdition, and a multitude of them will come to doom.

11 Who then ought to mourn the more, she who lost so great a multitude, or you who are grieving for one alone?

12 But if you say to me, "My lamentation is not like the earth's, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth in pain and bore in sorrow;

13 but it is with the earth according to the way of the earth—the multitude that is now in it goes as it came';

14 then I say to you, "Just as you brought forth in sorrow, so the earth also has from the beginning given her fruit, that is, humankind, to him who made her.'