Or,
It shall eat “thine harvest and thy bread:”
They shall eat “thy sons and thy daughters.”
It shall eat thy sheep and thy cattle:
It shall eat “thy vines and thy fig-trees.”
They shall impoverish ... - Or, It shall batter thy “fortified cities, wherein thou” trustest, with weapons of war. There is probably reference here to an instrument like a battering-ram, with which the Assyrians beat down the walls of their enemies.