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2 Esdras 12:48-51 Common English Bible (CEB)

48. I haven’t abandoned you, nor have I gone away from you. I came to this place to pray because of Zion’s desolation, in order to seek mercy for the humiliation of your sanctuary.

49. Now go home, each of you, and I will come to you in a few days."

50. So the people went into the city as I told them,

51. but I sat in the field for seven days as he had commanded me, and I ate only the flowers that grew in the field, and plants were my food in those days.

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