and saith to him, ‘Wherefore [art] thou thus lean, O king's son, morning by morning? dost thou not declare to me?’ And Amnon saith to him, ‘Tamar — sister of Absalom my brother — I am loving.’
‘And from the time we have ceased to make perfume to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations, we have lacked all, and by sword and by famine we have been consumed,
and the people speak against God, and against Moses, ‘Why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to die in a wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul hath been weary of this light bread.’