5 Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and answered her in anger, and said,
6 You foolish woman above all other, see you not our mourning, and what has happened to us?
7 how that Sion the mother of us all is full of sorrow, and much humbled.
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?