King James Version (KJV)
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Modern English
Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;
Hebrew
בְּחֶ֣סֶר וּ֭בְכָפָן גַּלְמ֑וּד הַ֝עֹ֗רְקִים צִיָּ֥ה אֶ֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשׁוֹאָֽה׃
bḥeser vbkapan galmvd haʿorqiym ṣiyah ʾemesh shvoʾah vmshvoʾah