2 Esdras 1:21-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²¹ I divided fertile lands among you; I drove out the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and the Philistines^[a] before you. What more can I do for you? says the Lord. ²² Thus says the Lord Almighty:^[b] When you were in the wilderness, at the bitter stream, thirsty and blaspheming my name, ²³ I did not send fire on you for your blasphemies, but threw a tree into the water and made the stream sweet.