2 Esdras 7:3

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;

2 Esdras 7:3 In-Context

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

2 And he said unto me, "Up, Ezra, and hear the words that I have 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 suppose 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?