2 Esdras 10:2-5 Common English Bible (CEB)

2. We extinguished all our lamps, and all my fellow citizens rose to console me. I was quiet until the next day, until nightfall.

3. But when all ceased consoling me so that I would be quiet, I got up at night and fled, and I came into this field, as you see.

4. Now I plan not to return to the city but to stay here, and I will neither eat nor drink but lament and fast without ceasing, until I die."

5. I abandoned the thoughts that had preoccupied me and responded to her in anger:

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