1 “But now men younger than I make fun of me— men whose fathers were too worthless to put with my sheep dogs.
2 Their fathers are still too weak to be of any use to me. All their strength is gone.
3 They are starving with nothing to eat, so they chew on the dry, ruined land.
4 They pull up salt plants in the desert and eat the roots from the broom tree.
5 They are forced away from other people, who shout at them as if they were thieves.
6 They must live in the dry riverbeds, hillside caves, and holes in the ground.
7 They howl in the bushes and huddle together under thornbushes.