⁵ Like wild donkeys^(A) in the desert,
    the poor go about their labor^(B) of foraging food;
    the wasteland^(C) provides food for their children.

⁵ “Who let the wild donkey^(A) go free?
    Who untied its ropes?
⁶ I gave it the wasteland^(B) as its home,
    the salt flats^(C) as its habitat.^(D)
7 It laughs^(E) at the commotion in the town;
    it does not hear a driver’s shout.^(F)
8 It ranges the hills^(G) for its pasture
    and searches for any green thing.