2 Esdras 10:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁶ For if you acknowledge the decree of God to be just, you will receive your son back in due time, and will be praised among women. ¹⁷ Therefore go into the town to your husband.’

¹⁸ She said to me, ‘I will not do so; I will not go into the city, but I will die here.’