2 Esdras 9:40-42

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴⁰ and said to her, ‘Why are you weeping, and why are you grieved at heart?’

⁴¹ She said to me, ‘Let me alone, my lord, so that I may weep for myself and continue to mourn, for I am greatly embittered in spirit and deeply distressed.’

⁴² I said to her, ‘What has happened to you? Tell me.’