1. But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose avot I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my tzon.
2. Yea, what use was the koach of their hands to me, since their vigor hath perished?
3. For choser (want, lack) and hunger they gnawed the parched ground desolate and waste.
4. They cut up mallow plants by the bushes, and juniper roots for their lechem.
5. They were banished from among men, (they shouted after them as after a ganav);
6. To dwell in the clefts of the wadis, in holes of aphar, and in the rocks.
7. Among the bushes they brayed; tachat (under) the underbrush they were huddled together.
8. They were bnei naval, yea, sons of base men; they were driven forth out of ha'aretz.
9. And atah (now) am I their mocking song, yea, I am their byword.
10. They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not rok (spit) in my face [Mt 26:67].