Psalm 89:40
New International Version
You have broken through all his walls and reduced his strongholds to ruins.

New Living Translation
You have broken down the walls protecting him and ruined every fort defending him.

English Standard Version
You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins.

Berean Standard Bible
You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

King James Bible
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

New King James Version
You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

New American Standard Bible
You have broken down all his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

NASB 1995
You have broken down all his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

NASB 1977
Thou hast broken down all his walls; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

Legacy Standard Bible
You have broken down all his walls; You have beset his strongholds with ruin.

Amplified Bible
You have broken down all his [city] walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Christian Standard Bible
You have broken down all his walls; you have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.

American Standard Version
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You have broken down his hedge and you pulled down his fortresses!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast made his strong holds a terror.

Contemporary English Version
The walls of his city have been broken through, and every fortress now lies in ruins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.

English Revised Version
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to rain.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You have broken through all his walls and have laid his fortified cities in ruins.

Good News Translation
You have torn down the walls of his city and left his forts in ruins.

International Standard Version
You have broken through all his walls; you have laid his fortresses in ruin.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou hast broken down all his fences; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

Literal Standard Version
You have broken down all his hedges, | You have made his fortifications a ruin.

Majority Standard Bible
You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

New American Bible
You broke down all city walls, left his strongholds in ruins.

NET Bible
You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

New Revised Standard Version
You have broken through all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins.

New Heart English Bible
You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

World English Bible
You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin.

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Context
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
39You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust. 40You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble. 41All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.…

Cross References
Psalm 80:12
Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Isaiah 5:5
Now 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.

Lamentations 2:2
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:5
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.


Treasury of Scripture

You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strong holds to ruin.

broken

Psalm 80:12
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Job 1:10
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Isaiah 5:5,6
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: …

brought

2 Chronicles 12:2-5
And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD, …

2 Chronicles 15:5
And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

Lamentations 2:2,5
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof…

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Psalm 89
1. The psalmist praises God for his covenant
5. For his wonderful power
15. For the care of his church
19. For his favor to the kingdom of David
38. Then complaining of contrary events
46. He expostulates, prays, and blesses God.














Verse 40. - Thou hast broken down all his hedges; i.e. "all his defences" - the strongholds, that guarded the frontiers of the land, were brought to ruin (comp. 2 Chronicles 11:5-10).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You have broken down
פָּרַ֥צְתָּ (pā·raṣ·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6555: To break through

all
כָל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

his walls;
גְּדֵרֹתָ֑יו (gə·ḏê·rō·ṯāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1448: Enclosure

You have reduced
שַׂ֖מְתָּ (śam·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

his strongholds
מִבְצָרָ֣יו (miḇ·ṣā·rāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4013: A fortification, castle, fortified city, a defender

to rubble.
מְחִתָּה׃‪‬ (mə·ḥit·tāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4288: A dissolution, a ruin, consternation


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