15 For why should they bear in pain, Only to bury in grief? (2BA) 16 Or why, again, should mankind have sons? Or why should the seed of their kind again be named, Where this mother is desolate, And her sons are led into captivity? (2BA) 17 From this time forward speak not of beauty, And discourse not of gracefulness. (2BA)
2 Baruch 10:15–17
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