Psalms 89:40
38 Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
39 You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
41 All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
- KJV
- Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
- WEB
- You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
- ASV
- Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
- DARBY
- Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
- BLB
- You have broken down all his walls; You have set his strongholds [to] ruin.
- ÅB
- Du har revet ned alle hans murer, du har lagt hans festninger i grus.
- OTB
- Du har brutt ned alle hans murer;
Du har redusert hans festninger til ruiner. - B1930
- Du har revet ned alle hans murer, du har lagt hans festninger i grus.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 80:12
Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
Read in contextLamentations 2:2
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
Read in contextLamentations 2:5
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
Read in contextIsaiah 5:5–6
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.
Read in contextJob 1:10
Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
Read in context2 Chronicles 12:2–5
In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem
Read in context2 Chronicles 15:5
In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.
Read in contextRevelation 13:1–7
Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
Read in context