You will be without fuel, without subsistence for yourselves or forage for your animals.

You will be in a strange land, while we know every foot of it.

We will haunt and harass you and pick you off by day and by night, and, as God lives, we will waste your army away." This was hopeful.

Here at least was another chance to suffer persecution, and thus, in a measure, atone for any monstrous wrong they might have done.

He hoped the soldiers would come despoiling, plundering, thus compelling them to use the torch and to flee.