2 Esdr 9:35
That thing also which was sown, or cast therein, or received,
doth perish, and remaineth not with us: but with us it hath not
happened so.

2 Esdr 9:36
For we that have received the law perish by sin, and our
heart also which received it

2 Esdr 9:37
Notwithstanding the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his
force.

2 Esdr 9:38
And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back with
mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold,
she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in
heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her
head.

2 Esdr 9:39
Then let I my thoughts go that I was in, and turned me unto
her,

2 Esdr 9:40
And said unto her, Wherefore weepest thou? why art thou so
grieved in thy mind?

2 Esdr 9:41
And she said unto me, Sir, let me alone, that I may bewail
myself, and add unto my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind,
and brought very low.

2 Esdr 9:42
And I said unto her, What aileth thee? tell me.

2 Esdr 9:43
She said unto me, I thy servant have been barren, and had no
child, though I had an husband thirty years,

2 Esdr 9:44
And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night, and
every hour, but make my, prayer to the Highest.

2 Esdr 9:45
After thirty years God heard me thine handmaid, looked upon
my misery, considered my trouble, and gave me a son: and I was
very glad of him, so was my husband also, and all my neighbours:
and we gave great honour unto the Almighty.

2 Esdr 9:46
And I nourished him with great travail.

2 Esdr 9:47
So when he grew up, and came to the time that he should have
a wife, I made a feast.

2 Esdr 10:1
And it so came to pass, that when my son was entered into his
wedding chamber, he fell down, and died.

2 Esdr 10:2
Then we all overthrew the lights, and all my neighbours rose
up to comfort me: so I took my rest unto the second day at
night.

2 Esdr 10:3
And it came to pass, when they had all left off to comfort
me, to the end I might be quiet; then rose I up by night and
fled, and came hither into this field, as thou seest.

2 Esdr 10:4
And I do now purpose not to return into the city, but here to
stay, and neither to eat nor drink, but continually to mourn and
to fast until I die.

2 Esdr 10:5
Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and spake to her
in anger, saying,

2 Esdr 10:6
Thou foolish woman above all other, seest thou not our
mourning, and what happeneth