2 Esdras 10:12

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,

2 Esdras 10:12 In-Context

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.'