3. For want and faminethey gnawed the parched land;fleeing into the wilderness in former time, desolate and waste.
4. Who pluck mallow by the bushes,and juniper roots for their food.
5. They were driven out from among men;they shout after them as after a thief.
6. They had to dwell in the rocky riverbeds,in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
7. Among the bushes they brayed;under the nettles they were gathered together.
8. They were children of fools, yes, children of vile men;they were scourged from the earth.
9. “Now I am their taunting song;yes, I am their byword.