Matthew 6,30 "Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow will be thrown into the oven, won't he do much more for you, you people of little faith?"
Exodus 12.8 "On that night they shall eat its roasted flesh with unleavened bread and bitter herbs."
Isaiah 34.13. “In his palaces thorns will rise, nettles and thistles on his fortresses; it will become a den for jackals, an enclosure for ostriches.” Isaiah 55,13 “Instead of thorns cypresses will grow, instead of nettles myrtles will grow; this will be to the glory of the Lord, an eternal sign that will not disappear.”
Sirach 24,13-14 - Wisdom speaks “I grew up like a cedar on Lebanon, like a cypress on the mountains of Hermon. I grew up like a palm tree in Engaddi, like rose plants in Jericho, like a majestic olive tree in the plain; I grew up like a plane tree."
Song of Songs 2,10-12 "Now my beloved speaks and says to me:" Get up, my love, my beauty, and come! For, behold, the winter is past, the rain is over, it is gone; the flowers have appeared in the fields, the time for singing has returned and the voice of the turtle dove is still heard in our countryside."
Maccabees 26, 6-7 "It was no longer possible either to observe the Sabbath, or to celebrate the traditional feasts, or to make an open profession of Judaism. Every month on the king's Christmas day, one was dragged with bitter violence to witness the sacrifice; when the Dionysian festivals, one was forced to parade crowned with ivy in honor of Dionysus."
John 12,3. "Mary then, taking a pound of perfumed oil of real nard, very precious, sprinkled Jesus' feet and dried them with her hair, and the whole house was filled with the scent of the ointment."
Luke 11,42 "But woe to you, Pharisees, who pay a tithe of mint and rue and every other herb, and then transgress justice and the love of God. These things had to be taken care of without neglecting the others."
Job 6,6 "Does one eat insipid food without salt? Or what is the taste of mallow water?"