4 By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes,and the root of the broom tree was their food.
5 They were banished from the community – people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves –
6 so that they had to live in the dry stream beds,in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.
7 They brayed like animals among the bushesand were huddled together under the nettles.
8 Sons of senseless and nameless people,they were driven out of the land with whips.
9 “And now I have become their taunt song;I have become a byword among them.
10 They detest me and maintain their distance;they do not hesitate to spit in my face.