2 Esdras 2:4

4 But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken. Go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord."

2 Esdras 2:4 In-Context

2 The mother who bore them saith unto them, "Go your way, ye children, for I am a widow and forsaken.

3 I brought you up with gladness, but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you; for ye have sinned before the Lord your God and done that thing that is evil before Him.

4 But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken. Go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord."

5 As for Me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children who would not keep My covenant,

6 that thou bring them to confusion and their mother to be a spoil, that there may be no offspring of them.