3 Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing in the dry region in the darkness of desolation and waste.
4 They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes, and the roots of broom trees to warm themselves.
5 They were driven out from fellow people; they shout at them as at a thief,
6 so that they dwell in holes of the ground and in the rocks.
7 They bray among the bushes; they are gathered under the nettles.
8 A senseless crowd, yes, a disreputable brood, they were cast out from the land.
9 “But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.