8. It is right now to mourn very sore, seeing we all mourn, and to be sorrowful, seeing we are all in sorrow, but you sorrowest for one son.
9. For ask the earth, and she shall tell you, that it is she which ought to mourn for so many that grow upon her.
10. For out of her all had their beginnings, and others shall come; and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and the multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
11. Who then should make more mourning, she, that has lost so great a multitude, or you, which are grieved but for one?
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:
13. but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth; the multitude present in it is gone, as it came: