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The poor are like wild donkeys in the desert.
    They have to go around looking for food.
    The dry and empty land provides the only food for their children.
The poor go to the fields and get a little grain.
    They gather up what is left in the vineyards of sinners.
The poor don’t have any clothes. So they spend the night naked.
    They don’t have anything to cover themselves in the cold.

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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.
They gather fodder(D) in the fields
    and glean in the vineyards(E) of the wicked.(F)
Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;
    they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.(G)

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