Job 30:4
Plucking vp nettles among the busshes, and the iuniper rootes for their meate.
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- 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.
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3 For very miserie and hunger they fled into the wildernesse, a darke place, horrible and waste,
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5 And when they were dryuen foorth, men cryed after them as it had ben afafter a thiefe.
6 Their dwelling was in the cleftes of brookes, yea in the caues and dennes of the earth.
7 Among the busshes went they about crying, and vnder the thornes they gathered them selues together.
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35 And they did eate vp all the grasse in their lande: and deuoured the fruite of their grounde.
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5 Beholde, as wilde asses in the desert go they foorth to their worke, & ryse betimes to spoyle: Yea the very wildernesse ministreth foode for them & their children.
6 They reape the corne fielde that is not their owne, and let the vineyarde of the vngodly alone.
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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.
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5 His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie,
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10 They let hym go naked without clothing, and haue taken away the sheafe of the hungrie.
11 The poore are fayne to labour in their oyle mylles, yea and to treade in their wyne presses, and yet to suffer thirst.
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29 Hony, butter, sheepe, & cheese of kyne, for Dauid and for the people that were with him, to eate: For they sayde, The people is hungry, weery, and thirstie, in the wildernesse.
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30 But whyle the meate was yet in their mouthes, the heauy wrath of God came vpon them, and slue the welthyest of them: and made the chosen men of Israel to stoupe.
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4 They went astray out of the way in solitarines and in wildernes, and found no citie to dwell in:
5 they were hungry and thirstie, their soule fainted in them.
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6 But now our soule is dryed away: for we can see nothing els, saue Manna.
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18 Their soule abhorreth all maner of meate: and they be euen harde at deathes doore.
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7 Therfore the goodes that remayneth in Moab, and the riches therof, they shall cary to the brooke of wyllowes.
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9 We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.
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19 These shall come and shall light all in the desolate valleys, in the holes of stones, and vpon all thornie and bushie places.
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14 Therfore feede thy people with thy rod, the flocke of thyne heritage whiche dwel desolate in the wood, that they may be fed vpon the mount of Carmel, Basan, and Gilead, as aforetime.
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5 The hynde also forsoke the young fawne that he brought foorth in the fielde, because there was no grasse.
6 The wylde asses did stande in the hye places, and drewe in their winde lyke the dragons, their eyes did fayle for want of grasse.
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5 They that were wont to fare delicatelye perishe in the streetes: they that afore were brought vp in purple, make nowe muche of doung.
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3 And they eate also the fleshe of my people, & flay of their skinne from them: and they breake their bones, and chop them in peeces as for the pot, and as fleshe within the cauldron.
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4 And pitched their tentes against them, and destroyed the encrease of the earth, euen tyll thou come vnto Azah, & left no sustenaunce for Israel, neither sheepe, oxe, nor asse:
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18 And they temped god in their heartes: in requiring meate for their lust.
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17 That they may cause a lacke of bread and water, and be astonied one at another, and be consumed in their iniquitie.
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6 But when they were well fed, and had enough, they waxed proude, & forgat me.
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4 So much as sharpe arrowes of a strong man in thy sydes: with Iuniper coales powred on thy head.
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9 They that be slayne with the sworde, are happier then such as dye of hunger, and perishe away famishing for the fruites of the fielde.
10 The women (whiche of nature are pitifull) haue sodden their owne chyldren with their hands, that they might be their meate in the miserable destruction of the daughter of my people.
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17 The seede is rotte vnder their cloddes, the garners are destroyed, the barnes are ouerthrowen: for the corne is withered.
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4 And a number of people that was among them fell a lustyng, and turned them selues, and wept (euen as dyd also the chyldren of Israel) and sayd: who shall geue vs fleshe to eate?
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24 They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I wyll also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the furiousnesse of serpentes in the dust.
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27 For their inhabitours shalbe like lame men brought in feare and confounded: they shalbe lyke grasse and greene hearbes in the fielde, lyke the hay vpon house toppes, that wythereth before it be growen vp.
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7 The thinges that sometime I might not away withel, are nowe my meate for very sorowe.
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15 Let them runne here and there for meate: and go to bed if they be not satisfied.
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13 And with that sayde the Lord, Euen thus shall the chyldren of Israel eate their defiled bread among the gentiles whyther I wyll cast them.
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2 For some men remoue the landemarkes, robbe men of their cattell, and feede of the same:
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12 But she was pluckt vp in wrath, cast out vpon the grounde, the east wynde dryed vp her fruite her braunches were broken of & withered, as for the roddes of her strength, the fire consumed them.
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5 For afore the haruest whe the braunch is growen, there shall come ripe fruite of the floure: and he shal cut downe the increase with sithes, and the braunches shall he take away with hookes.
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21 He resteth him in the shade, in the couerte of the reede and fennes.
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19 Our persecutours are swifter then the Egles of the ayre: they folowed vppon vs ouer the mountaynes, and layde wayte for vs in the wyldernesse.
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10 Els shall the strong citie be desolate, and the habitation forsaken and left like a wildernesse: there shall the Calfe feede, and there shall he lye, and eate vp the graffes therof.
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13 The wylde bore out of the wood rooteth it vp: and the wylde beast of the fielde deuoureth it.
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29 For ye shalbe confounded for the trees which ye haue desired: and ye shalbe ashamed of the gardens that ye haue chosen.
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19 Unto thee O Lorde wyll I crye, for feare hath destroyed the fruitfull places of the desert, and the flambe hath burnt vp all the trees of the fielde.