And Elisha returned to Gilgal, and [there was] a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."

So one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds, and came and sliced [them] into the pot of stew, though they did not know [what they were.]

Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah: "I [was] no prophet, Nor [was] I a son of a prophet, But I [was] a sheepbreeder And a tender of sycamore fruit.

"And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him [anything.]