2 Esdras 4:13

13 He answered me and said, "I went into a forest of trees of the plain, and they made a plan

2 Esdras 4:13 In-Context

11 how then can your mind comprehend the way of the Most High? And how can one who is already worn out by the corrupt world understand incorruption?" When I heard this, I fell on my face

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."

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.'

15 And in like manner the waves of the sea also made a plan and said, `Come, let us go up and subdue the forest of the plain so that there also we may gain more territory for ourselves.'