Translation comparison

2 Esdras 7:3 in 1 translation

Every translation here words this verse identically, which is itself worth knowing — there is no interpretive fork to weigh.

Read with nearby context Open chapter 7

Early modern English

Seventeenth-century wording and sentence shape. Familiar, rhythmic, and the version most quotations you have heard are taken from.

King James Version

KJV

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.

1611 / 1769 · Public domain · The Authorised Version, revised to the 1769 Blayney text. Includes the Apocrypha as printed in 1611.

The verses either side

King James text. A comparison is easier to judge when you can see the sentence the verse sits inside.

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

3And 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.

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

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