Who pluck mallow by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
He would gladly have filled his stomach with the husks that the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.
But Amos answered Amaziah: “I am no prophet, and I am no prophet’s disciple. Rather, I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees.
But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough! Now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”
For want and famine they gnawed the parched land; fleeing into the wilderness in former time, desolate and waste.
They were driven out from among men; they shout after them as after a thief.