The King James Version Bible

2 Esdras 7:1-5

  1. And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent unto me the angel which had been sent unto me the nights afore:

  2. And he said unto me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell thee.

  3. And I said, Speak on, my God. Then said he unto me, The sea is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great.

  4. But put the case the entrance were narrow, and like a river;

  5. Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?