2 Esdras 2:4

4 But now what can I do for you? For I am a widow and forsaken. Go, my children, and ask for mercy from the Lord.'

2 Esdras 2:4 In-Context

2 The mother who bore them says to them, `Go, my children, because I am a widow and forsaken.

3 I brought you up with gladness; but with mourning and sorrow I have lost you, because you have sinned before the Lord God and have done what is evil in my sight.

4 But now what can I do for you? For I am a widow and forsaken. Go, my children, and ask for mercy from the Lord.'

5 I call upon you, father, as a witness in addition to the mother of the children, because they would not keep my covenant,

6 that you may bring confusion upon them and bring their mother to ruin, so that they may have no offspring.