2 Esdras 7:2-4

Common English Bible

² He said to me, “Rise, Ezra, and hear the words I have come to speak to you.”

³ I said, “Speak, my Lord.”

He said to me: “A certain sea is set in a spacious place so that it can be deep and vast, ⁴ but its entrance is set in a narrow place, like a river.