Psalm 80:12 {79:13}
Good News Translation
Why did you break down the fences around it? Now anyone passing by can steal its grapes;

New Revised Standard Version
Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

Contemporary English Version
Our Lord, why have you torn down the wall from around the vineyard? You let everyone who walks by pick the grapes.

New American Bible
Why have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

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Psalm 89:40,41 Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear. . . .

Isaiah 5:5 And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.

Isaiah 18:5,6 For before the harvest it was all flourishing, and it shall bud without perfect ripeness, and the sprigs thereof shall be cut off with pruning hooks: and what is left shall be cut away and shaken out. . . .

Nahum 2:2 For the Lord hath rendered the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: because the spoilers have laid them waste, and have marred their vine branches.

Luke 20:16 He will come and will destroy these husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

Context
Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel
11It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river. 12Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?13The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.…
Cross References
Psalm 89:40
Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.

Psalm 89:41
All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

Isaiah 5:5
And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.

Amos 9:11
All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.

Nahum 2:2
For the Lord hath rendered the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: because the spoilers have laid them waste, and have marred their vine branches.

Psalm 80:11
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