'Broken down' in the Bible
He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.
It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.
Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.
Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim. And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory, That is on the head of the fat valley of the broken down of wine.
For from the voice of Jehovah broken down is Asshur, With a rod He smiteth.
And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.