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Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel

Psalms 80:12

In 11 translations

BSB
Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
KJV
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
WEB
Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
ASV
Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?
LSV
Why have You broken down its hedges, || And everyone passing by the way has plucked it?
YLT
Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it?
DBY
Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?
DRC79:13
Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?
GNV
Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her?
JPS80:13
Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?
LXXE79:13
Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC80:13
לָ֭מָּה פָּרַ֣צְתָּ גְדֵרֶ֑יהָ וְ֝אָר֗וּהָ כָּל־עֹ֥בְרֵי דָֽרֶךְ׃KJV:Ps.80.12
LXX-Br79:13
Ἱνατί καθεῖλες τὸν φραγμὸν αὐτῆς, καὶ τρυγῶσιν αὐτὴν πάντες οἱ παραπορευόμενοι τὴν ὁδόν;

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
  • Luke 20:16He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.” And when the people heard this, they said, “May such a thing never happen!”
  • Psalms 89:40–41You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble. All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
  • Isaiah 18:5–6For 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. They will all be left to the mountain birds…
  • Nahum 2:2For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 80:13 in some Bibles
  • 80:12 in most Bibles

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