And now, I will break Assyria's yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you."

The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.

The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey to provide food for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!