Verse 4

They cut vp nettels by the bushes, & the iuniper rootes was their meate.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 4:38-39 : 38 Afterward Elisha returned to Gilgal, and a famine was in the land, and the children of the Prophets dwelt with him; hee sayd vnto his seruant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the children of the Prophets. 39 And one went out into the fielde, to gather herbes, and founde, as it were, a wilde vine, & gathered thereof wilde gourdes his garment ful, and came & shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew it not.
• Amos 7:14 : 14 Then answered Amos, & said to Amaziah, I was no Prophet, neither was I a prophets sonne, but I was an herdman, & a gatherer of wilde figs.
• Luke 15:16 : 16 And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him.