Psalms 80:12
\80:11\It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
In Context
11\80:10\The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.
13\80:12\Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?
Cross References
Psalms 89:40\89:39\You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.
Isaiah 18:5For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.
Luke 20:16He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 80:9-19
The Desolated Vine. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. 12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste… Read the whole commentary →