And they ate grass and barks of trees: and the root of junipers was their food.
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat; and no man gave unto him.
And Amos answered and said to Amasias: I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet: but I am a herdsman plucking wild figs.
And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper-tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me. Lord, take away my soul; for I am no better than my fathers.
Barren with want and hunger, they gnawed in the wilderness: disfigured with calamity and misery.
Who snatched up these things out of the valleys: and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.