unto us?

2 Esdr 10:7
How that Sion our mother is full of all heaviness, and much
humbled, mourning very sore?

2 Esdr 10:8
And now, seeing we all mourn and are sad, for we are all in
heaviness, art thou grieved for one son?

2 Esdr 10:9
For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee, that it is she
which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her.

2 Esdr 10:10
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.

2 Esdr 10:11
Who then should make more mourning than she, that hath lost
so great a multitude; and not thou, which art sorry but for one?

2 Esdr 10:12
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 bare with sorrows;

2 Esdr 10:13
But the earth not so: for the multitude present in it
according to the course of the earth is gone, as it came:

2 Esdr 10:14
Then say I unto thee, Like as thou hast brought forth with
labour; even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely,
man, ever since the beginning unto him that made her.

2 Esdr 10:15
Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with a
good courage that which hath befallen thee.

2 Esdr 10:16
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.

2 Esdr 10:17
Go thy way then into the city to thine husband.

2 Esdr 10:18
And she said unto me, That will I not do: I will not go into
the city, but here will I die.

2 Esdr 10:19
So I proceeded to speak further unto her, and said,

2 Esdr 10:20
Do not so, but be counselled by me: for how many are the
adversities of Sion? be comforted in regard of the sorrow of
Jerusalem.

2 Esdr 10:21
For thou seest that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar
broken down, our temple destroyed;

2 Esdr 10:22
Our psaltery is laid on the ground, our song is put to
silence, our rejoicing is at an end, the light of our
candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is spoiled, our
holy things are defiled, and the name that is called upon us is
almost profaned: our children are put to shame, our priests are
burnt, our Levites are gone into captivity, our virgins are
defiled, and our wives ravished; our righteous men carried away,
our little ones destroyed, our young men ar