2 Esdras 4:14
“And said, Come, let vs goe and make warre against the Sea, that it may depart away before vs, and that we may make vs more woods.”
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2 Esdras 4:14 Context
12Then said I vnto him, It were better that we were not at all, then that we should liue still in wickednesse, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore. 13He answered me and said, I went into a forest into a plaine, and the trees tooke counsell, 14And said, Come, let vs goe and make warre against the Sea, that it may depart away before vs, and that we may make vs more woods. 15The floods of the Sea also in like maner tooke counsell, and said, Come, let vs goe vp and subdue the woods of the plaine, that there also we may make vs another countrey. 16The thought of the wood was in vaine, for the fire came and consumed it.
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And said, Come, let us go and make war against the sea that it may depart away before us, and that we may make us more woods.
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