1. And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent to me the angel which had been sent to me the nights before:
2. and he said to me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell you.
3. And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then he said to me, There is a sea set in a wide place, that it might be broad and vast.
4. But the entrance thereof shall be set in a narrow place so as to be like a river;