2. Such strength as they had meant nothing to me;their vigor had perished.
3. In want and emaciating hungerthey fled to the parched lands:to the desolate wasteland by night.
4. They plucked saltwort and shrubs;the roots of the broom plant were their food.
5. They were banished from the community,with an outcry like that against a thief—
6. To dwell on the slopes of the wadies,in caves of sand and stone;