For want
checer (kheh'-ler)
lack; hence, destitution -- poverty, want.
and famine
kaphan (kaw-fawn')
hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain) -- famine.
they were solitary
galmuwd (gal-mood')
sterile (as wrapped up too hard); figuratively, desolate -- desolate, solitary.
fleeing
'araq (aw-rak')
to gnaw, i.e. (figuratively) eat (by hyberbole); also (participle) a pain -- fleeing, sinew.
into the wilderness
tsiyah (tsee-yaw')
aridity; concretely, a desert -- barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.
in former time
'emesh (eh'-mesh)
former time, yesterday(-night)
desolate
show' (sho)
a tempest; by implication, devastation -- desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.
and waste
mshow'ah (meh-o-aw')
(a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck) -- desolation, waste.
