They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
They shall be left together unto the fowls ... and ... beasts - transition from the image, "sprigs," "branches," to the thing meant.
The fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts ... winter upon them - the Assyrian soldiers and leaders shall be the prey of birds and beasts the whole year through, "winter" and "summer," so numerous shall be their carcasses. Horsley translates the Hebrew, which is singular, 'upon it' not "upon them:" the 'it' refers to God's "dwelling place" (Isaiah 18:4) in the Holy Land, which Antichrist ('the bird of prey' with the "beasts," his rebel hosts) is to possess himself of, and where he is to perish. But Revelation 19:17-18; Ezekiel 39:17-20 show that the anti-Christian hosts, as carcasses, are to be the prey of birds and beasts, which shall summer and winter upon them, as the carcasses of the Assyrian host, the type, were formerly.