2 Esdras 1:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹¹ I destroyed all nations before them, and scattered in the east the peoples of two provinces,^[a] Tyre and Sidon; I killed all their enemies.

God’s Mercies to Israel

¹² ‘But speak to them and say, Thus says the Lord: ¹³ Surely it was I who brought you through the sea, and made safe highways for you where there was no road; I gave you Moses as leader and Aaron as priest;