those plucking mallow by the bushes, and broom roots for their food;
and he himself went into the wilderness a day’s journey, and came and sat under a certain broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die, and said, Enough, now, O Jehovah; take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
They are lifeless with want and hunger, those who gnaw the dry ground which was formerly waste and desolation;
they are driven from the midst; they shouted against them as a thief;
Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I was not a prophet, and not was I a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman and one tending sycamore trees.
And he longed to fill his stomach from the husks which the pigs ate, and no one gave to him.