Verse 4

They pluck salt herbs from the bush, and the roots of broom trees are their food.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 4:38-39 : 38 Elisha returned to Gilgal, where there was a famine in the land. The company of the prophets was sitting before him, and he said to his servant, 'Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.' 39 One of them went out into the field to gather herbs. He found a wild vine and picked some of its gourds, filling his garment. He returned, cut them up, and put them in the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
  • Amos 7:14 : 14 Amos answered Amaziah, 'I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore figs.'
  • Luke 15:16 : 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.