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2 Esdras 4:17-19
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
2 Esdras 4:17-19
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
17 likewise also the plan of the waves of the sea was in vain,[a] for the sand stood firm and blocked it. 18 If now you were a judge between them, which would you undertake to justify, and which to condemn?’
19 I answered and said, ‘Each made a foolish plan, for the land has been assigned to the forest, and the locale of the sea a place to carry its waves.’
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- 2 Esdras 4:17 Lat lacks was in vain
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)
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