2. Moreover, what use to me is the strength of their hands? With them, vigor is destroyed.
3. Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing in the dry region in the darkness of desolation and waste.
4. They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes, and the roots of broom trees to warm themselves.
5. They were driven out from fellow people; they shout at them as at a thief,
6. so that they dwell in holes of the ground and in the rocks.
7. They bray among the bushes; they are gathered under the nettles.
8. A senseless crowd, yes, a disreputable brood, they were cast out from the land.
9. “But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.
10. They abhor me; they keep aloof from me, and they do not withhold spit from my face