Verse 4

Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots `is' their food.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 4:38-39 : 38 And Elisha hath turned back to Gilgal, and the famine `is' in the land, and the sons of the prophets are sitting before him, and he saith to his young man, `Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.' 39 And one goeth out unto the field to gather herbs, and findeth a vine of the field, and gathereth of it gourds of the field -- the fulness of his garment -- and cometh in and splitteth `them' into the pot of pottage, for they knew `them' not;
• Amos 7:14 : 14 And Amos answereth and saith unto Amaziah, `I `am' no prophet, nor a prophet's son `am' I, but a herdsman I `am', and a cultivator of sycamores,
• Luke 15:16 : 16 and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.