2 Esdras 7:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Response to Ezra’s Questions

7 When I had finished speaking these words, the angel who had been sent to me on the former nights was sent to me again. ² He said to me, ‘Rise, Ezra, and listen to the words that I have come to speak to you.’

³ I said, ‘Speak, my lord.’ And he said to me, ‘There is a sea set in a wide expanse so that it is deep and vast,