Psalms 80:12
Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
Majority Standard Bible
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 branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.
13The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
Cross References
Psalms 89:40You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
Isaiah 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.
Luke 20:16He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” And when the people heard this, they said, “May such a thing never happen!”
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 →