2. Their strong hands couldn't give me any help. That's because their strength was gone.
3. They were weak because they were needy and hungry. They wandered through dry and empty deserts at night.
4. Among the bushes they gathered salty plants. They ate the roots of desert trees.
5. They were driven away from society. They were shouted at as if they were robbers.
6. They were forced to live in dry stream beds. They had to stay among rocks and in holes in the ground.
7. Like donkeys they cried out among the bushes. There they crowded together and hid.