46. I answered them: "Have confidence, Israel! Don’t be sad, house of Jacob.
47. The Most High keeps you in memory. The mighty one hasn’t forgotten you in your struggle.
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.