2 Esdras 7:1-3

Common English Bible

7 When I finished speaking these words, the angel who had been sent to me on the previous nights was sent to me again. 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,