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2 Esdras 4:12-14
Revised Standard Version
2 Esdras 4:12-14
Revised Standard Version
12 and said to him, “It would be better for us not to be here than to come here and live in ungodliness, and to suffer and not understand why.”
Parable of the Forest and the Sea
13 He answered me and said, “I went into a forest of trees of the plain, and they made a plan 14 and said, ‘Come, let us go and make war against the sea, that it may recede before us, and that we may make for ourselves more forests.’
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