Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Brayed - like the wild donkey (Job 6:5) for food. The inarticulate tones of this uncivilized rabble are but little above those of the beast of the field.
Gathered together - rather, sprinkled here and there. Literally, poured out х yªcupaachuw (H5596)], graphically picturing their disorderly mode of encampment, lying up and down behind the thorn-bushes.
Nettles - or brambles (Umbreit).