2 Esdras 9:27-29

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁷ After seven days, while I lay on the grass, my heart was troubled again as it was before. ²⁸ Then my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Most High, and said, ²⁹ ‘O Lord, you showed yourself among us, to our ancestors in the wilderness when they came out from Egypt and when they came into the untrodden and unfruitful wilderness;