Psalms 80:12
Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?
Darby Translation
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
11It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.
13The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.
Cross References
Psalms 89:40Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
Isaiah 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away [and] cut down the branches.
Luke 20:16He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May it never be!
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 →