Psalms 80:13
\80:12\Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
In Context
12\80:11\It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
14\80:13\It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.
Cross References
2 Kings 18:1Now in the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, became king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 32:1Now after these things and this true-hearted work, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came into Judah, and put his army in position before the walled towns of Judah, designing to make his way into them by force.
Psalms 89:42\89:41\All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.
Jeremiah 4:7A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.
Jeremiah 39:1And it came about, that when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, with all his army, came against Jerusalem, shutting it in on every side;
Jeremiah 52:7Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the town by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and they went by the way of the Arabah.
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 →