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

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

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

WEB - They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

YLT - With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

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