Who pluck mallow by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
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.
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.
He would gladly have filled his stomach with the husks that the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.