2 Esdras 4:14-16

Common English Bible

¹⁴ and said: ‘Come, let’s go and make war on the sea so that it may recede before us, and let’s make for ourselves more forests.’ ¹⁵ And likewise, the waves of the sea also formed a plan and said, ‘Come, let’s go up and subdue the forest on the plain so that there too we may complete another region for ourselves.’ ¹⁶ But the plan of the forest came to naught, for fire came and consumed it.