11 Who then should mourn more, she who has lost so great a multitude, or you, who are grieved but for one? (WEB) 12 But if you say to me, ‘My lamentation is not like the earth’s, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows;’ (WEB) 13 but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth. The multitude present in it has gone as it came. (WEB)
2 Esdras 10:11–13
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4 Maccabees 16:10–12
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2 Baruch 3:7–9
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