And strangers, the most terrible of the nations, have cut it off, and have left it: upon the mountains and in all the valleys its branches are fallen, and its boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth have gone down from its shadow, and have left it.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Strangers; revolted Assyrians. See Psalm xvii. 46.