They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

Δι' ενδειαν και πειναν ησαν απομεμονωμενοι· εφευγον εις γην ανυδρον, σκοτεινην, ηφανισμενην και ερημον·

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.