2 Esdras 9:24-33
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24 But go into a field of flowers, where no house is builded, and eat only the flowers of the field; taste no flesh, drink no wine, but eat flowers only;)
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25 And pray unto the Highest continually, then will I come and talk with thee.
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26 So I went my way into the field which is called Ardath, like as he commanded me; and there I sat among the flowers, and did eat of the herbs of the field, and the meat of the same satisfied me.
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27 After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed within me, like as before:
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28 And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before the most High, and said,
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29 O Lord, thou that shewest thyself unto us, thou wast shewed unto our fathers in the wilderness, in a place where no man treadeth, in a barren place, when they came out of Egypt.
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30 And thou spakest saying, Hear me, O Israel; and mark my words, thou seed of Jacob.
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31 For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring fruit in you, and ye shall be honoured in it for ever.
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32 But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed not thy ordinances: and though the fruit of thy law did not perish, neither could it, for it was thine;
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33 Yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.