4In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.
4In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.
1 "But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?
3 Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.
5 They were banished from their fellow men, shouted at as if they were thieves.
6 They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
30:4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
30:4They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
30:4They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
30:4They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom are their meat.
30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
30:4They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
30:4Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.
30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.