2 Esdras 9:27-29

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²⁷ After seven days, while I lay on the grass, my heart was troubled again as it was before.^{(A) 28} Then my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Most High and said,^{(B) 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,^(C)