who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste:
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief,)
Then answered Amos, and said to Amazi´ah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.