They pull up salt plants in the desert.\par They eat the roots from the broom tree.\par
Then Elijah walked for a whole day into the desert. Elijah sat down under a bush. He asked to die. Elijah said, “I have had enough, Lord! Let me die. I am no better than my ancestors. [210] ”
They are like dead men—\par They are starving with nothing to eat.\par So they eat the dry dust of the desert.\par
They are forced away from other people.\par People shout at them like they are thieves.\par
Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I am not a professional prophet. And I am not from a prophet’s family. I keep cattle and take care of sycamore trees.
The son was so hungry that he wanted to eat the food that the pigs were eating. But no person gave him anything.