2 Esdras 9:41-43

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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.’

⁴³ And she said to me, ‘Your servant was barren and had no child, though I lived with my husband for thirty years.