Verse 4
4. Fell by the wayside Dropped in the hard path and so lay on the surface, a ready food for birds. “The ordinary roads or paths in the East lead often along the edge of the fields, which are unenclosed. Hence, as the sower scatters his seed, some of it is liable to fall beyond the ploughed portion, on the hard, beaten ground which forms the wayside.” Prof. Hackett.
Devoured them up In the old English, the phrase “devoured them up” was intensive and energetic.
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