Verse 4

They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 4:38-39 : 38 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets." 39 One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them.
• Amos 7:14 : 14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
• Luke 15:16 : 16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.