3. They were so poor and hungrythat they would gnaw dry roots —at night, in wild, desolate places.
4. They pulled up the plants of the desert and ate them,even the tasteless roots of the broom tree!
5. Everyone drove them away with shouts,as if they were shouting at thieves.
6. They had to live in caves,in holes dug in the sides of cliffs.
7. Out in the wilds they howled like animalsand huddled together under the bushes.
8. A worthless bunch of nameless nobodies!They were driven out of the land.