Psalms 80:13
A boar out of the forest tears it, || And a wild beast of the fields grazes it.
Literal Standard Version
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
12Why have You broken down its hedges, || And everyone passing by the way has plucked it?
14God of Hosts, turn back, we implore You, || Look from the heavens, and see, and inspect this vine,
Cross References
2 Kings 18:1And it comes to pass, in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz, king of Judah, has reigned;
2 Chronicles 32:1After these things and this truth, Sennacherib king of Asshur has come, indeed, he comes to Judah, and encamps against the cities of the bulwarks, and says to break into them himself.
Psalms 89:42You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries, || You have caused all his enemies to rejoice.
Jeremiah 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, || And a destroyer of nations has journeyed, || He has come forth from his place || To make your land become a desolation, || Your cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 39:1In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his force have come to Jerusalem, and they lay siege against it;
Jeremiah 52:7then the city is broken up, and all the men of war flee, and go forth from the city by night, the way of the gate between the two walls that [is] by the king’s garden—and the Chaldeans [are] by the city all around—and they go the way of the plain.
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 →