"Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat."
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And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
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 would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots `is' their food.