2 Esdras 9:24-26

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

²⁴ but go into a field of flowers where no house has been built, and eat only of the flowers of the field, and taste no meat and drink no wine but eat only flowers^(A)— ²⁵ and pray to the Most High continually, then I will come and talk with you.”

The Abiding Glory of the Mosaic Law

²⁶ So I went, as he directed me, into the field that is called Ardat;^[a] there I sat among the flowers and ate of the plants of the field, and the nourishment they afforded satisfied me.