2. Moreover, what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor has gone from them.
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.