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?
12
But if thou sayest unto me, `My lamentation is not like the earth's, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains and bore with sorrows,
13
but the earth not so; for the multitude present in it, according to the course of the earth, is gone as it came'--
14
then say I unto thee, `As thou hast brought forth with labor, even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely man, ever since the beginning, unto Him that made her.'
15
Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with good courage that which hath befallen thee.
16
For if thou shalt acknowledge the determination of God to be just, thou shalt both receive thy son in time, and shalt be commended among women.Œ
17
Go thy way then into the city to thine husband."
18
And she said unto me, "That will I not do; I will not go into the city, but here will I die."
19
So I proceeded to speak further unto her and said,
20
"Do not so, but be counseled by me; for how many are the adversities of Zion? Be comforted because of the sorrow of Jerusalem.