2 Esdras 7:3-5

Common English Bible

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. ⁵ If anyone wants to go to the sea to see it or to rule over it, how can he come into the broad place unless he passes through the narrow?