Psalms 89:40

³⁸ But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

³⁹ Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

⁴¹ All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

⁴² Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to 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 hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
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Lamentations 2:2
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
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Lamentations 2:5
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
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Isaiah 5:5–6
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
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Job 1:10
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
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2 Chronicles 12:2–5
And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
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2 Chronicles 15:5
And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
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Revelation 13:1–7
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
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