¹⁰ May his children be wandering beggars;^(A)
    may they be driven^[a] from their ruined homes.

²⁵ I was young and now I am old,
    yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken^(A)
    or their children begging^(B) bread.

² Like fluttering birds
    pushed from the nest,^(A)
so are the women of Moab^(B)
    at the fords^(C) of the Arnon.^(D)

¹⁵ They wander about for food^(A)
    and howl if not satisfied.

³ Haggard from want and hunger,
    they roamed^[a] the parched land^(A)
    in desolate wastelands^(B) at night.^(C)
4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs,^(D)
    and their food^[b] was the root of the broom bush.^(E)
5 They were banished from human society,
    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.^(F)
7 They brayed^(G) among the bushes^(H)
    and huddled in the undergrowth.
⁸ A base and nameless brood,^(I)
    they were driven out of the land.^(J)