2 Esdras 4:13-15

Common English Bible

¹³ He answered me: “I went forth to a forest of trees on the plain,^[a] and they devised a plan ¹⁴ and said: ‘Come, let’s go and make war on the sea so that it may recede before us, and let’s make for ourselves more forests.’ ¹⁵ And likewise, the waves of the sea also formed a plan and said, ‘Come, let’s go up and subdue the forest on the plain so that there too we may complete another region for ourselves.’