2 Esdras 9:42-44

Common English Bible

⁴² I said to her, “What have you suffered? Tell me!”

⁴³ She said to me: “I, your servant, was infertile, and I hadn’t given birth, although I had a husband for thirty years. ⁴⁴ Hour after hour and day after day during these thirty years I pleaded with the Most High by night and day.