Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
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 Yahweh, 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 Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
And he was longing to fill his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.