Psalms 80:12

10 The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

11 It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

13 The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.

14 Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
KJV
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
WEB
Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
ASV
Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?
DARBY
Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?
BLB
Why have You broken down her walls, and all passing by the way pluck her fruit?
ÅB
Hvorfor har du revet ned dets hegn, så alle de som går forbi på veien, plukker av det?
OTB
Hvorfor har du brutt ned dens murer,
Slik at alle som går forbi plukker dens frukt?
B1930
Hvorfor har du revet ned dets hegn, så alle de som går forbi på veien, plukker av det?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 5:5

    Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

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  • Luke 20:16

    He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.” And when the people heard this, they said, “May such a thing never happen!”

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  • Psalms 89:40–41

    You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

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  • Isaiah 18:5–6

    For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.

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  • Nahum 2:2

    For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.

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