3 Haggard from want and hunger, they gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.
4 In the brush they pluck salt herbs, and their food was from the root of the broom tree.
5 They were banished from society, shouted at as if they were thieves,
6 so they were forced to dwell in wadis, in holes of the earth and among the rocks.
7 They brayed among the bushes and huddled under the nettles.
8 A senseless and nameless brood, they were cast out from the land.
9 “So now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword to them.