10:6 Thou foolish woman above all other, seest thou not our mourning, and what happeneth unto us?
10:7 How that Sion our mother is full of all heaviness, and much humbled, mourning very sore?
10:8 And now, seeing we all mourn and are sad, for we are all in heaviness, art thou grieved for one son?
10:9 For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee, that it is she which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her.
10:10 For out of her came all at the first, and out of her shall all others come, and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and a multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
10:11 Who then should make more mourning than she, that hath lost so great a multitude; and not thou, which art sorry but for one?
10:12 But if thou sayest unto me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows;
10:13 But the earth not so: for the multitude present in it according to the course of the earth is gone, as it came:
10:14 Then say I unto thee, Like as thou hast brought forth with labour; even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning unto him that made her.
10:15 Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with a good courage that which hath befallen thee.