Verse 4

Plucking vp nettles among the busshes, and the iuniper rootes for their meate.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 4:38-39 : 38 Elisa came againe to Gilgal, and there was a dearth in the lande, and the children of the prophetes dwelt with him: And he saide vnto his seruaunt, Set a great pot on the fyre and make potage for the children of the prophetes. 39 And one went out into the fielde to gather hearbes, and found a wylde vine, and gathered therof wylde gourdes his lap ful, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew it not.
• Amos 7:14 : 14 Then aunswered Amos, and sayde to Amazia, I was no prophete, neither was I a prophetes sonne: but I was an heardeman, and a gatherer of wilde figges.
• Luke 15:16 : 16 And he woulde fayne haue fylled his belly with the coddes that the swyne dyd eate: and no man gaue vnto hym.