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2 What use to me was the strength of their hands?
Their vigour had left them.
3 Emaciated from poverty and hunger,
they gnawed the dry land,
the desolate wasteland by night.
4 They plucked mallow[a],(A) among the shrubs,
and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

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  1. 30:4 Or saltwort