Emaciated from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, the desolate wasteland by night.

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

If you work the land, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth."

They scavenge for food; they growl if they are not satisfied.

Let his children wander as beggars, searching [for food] far from their demolished homes.

We made a treaty with Egypt and with Assyria, to get enough food.

We secure our food at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts, mountains, caves, and holes in the ground.

Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him is put out.

His strength is depleted; disaster lies ready for him to stumble.

He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.

For if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, since they will be many. All that comes is futile.

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dense overcast, like the dawn spreading over the mountains; a great and strong people [appears], such as never existed in ages past and never will again in all the generations to come.

Won't the Day of the LORD be darkness rather than light, even gloom without any brightness in it?

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

but a terrifying expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries.