2 Esdras 9:28-30

Revised Standard Version

²⁸ And my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Most High, and said, ²⁹ “O Lord, thou didst show thyself among us, to our fathers in the wilderness when they came out from Egypt and when they came into the untrodden and unfruitful wilderness; ³⁰ and thou didst say, ‘Hear me, O Israel, and give heed to my words, O descendants of Jacob.