^{3 Ref} For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

^{4 Ref} Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

^{5 Ref} They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

^{6 Ref} To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

^{7 Ref} Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

^{8 Ref} They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

^{9 Ref} And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.