Psalms 89:40

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

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

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

New Century Version
You have torn down all his city walls; you have turned his strong cities into ruins.

New English Translation
You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

Amplified Bible
You have broken down all his [city] walls; 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.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou hast broken downe all his walles: thou hast layd his fortresses in ruine.

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

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
You renounced the covenant with your servant and defiled his crown in the dust.

Darby Translation
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

Easy-to-Read Version
You pulled down the walls of his city. You destroyed all his fortresses.

George Lamsa Translation
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

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

Lexham English Bible
You have broken down all his walls; you have made his fortifications a ruin.

Literal Translation
You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast turned backe the couenaunt of thy seruaunt, and cast his crowne to the grounde.

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

Bible in Basic English
All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou hast abhorred the covenant of Thy servant; Thou hast profaned his crown even to the ground.

King James Version (1611)
Thou hast broken downe all his hedges: thou hast brought his strong holds to ruine.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou hast ouerthrowe all his walles: and broken downe his strong holdes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast made his strong holds a terror.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou distriedist alle the heggis therof; thou hast set the stidefastnesse therof drede.

Update Bible Version
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.

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

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

New Life Bible
You have broken down all his walls. You have destroyed his strong places.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou hast broken down all his defenses, Thou hast laid his fortresses in ruins;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-41) Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.

Revised Standard Version
Thou hast breached all his walls; thou hast laid his strongholds in ruins.

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
You have broken down all his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Contextual Overview

³⁸But God , you did walk off and leave us, you lost your temper with the one you anointed. You tore up the promise you made to your servant, you stomped his crown in the mud. You blasted his home to kingdom come, reduced his city to a pile of rubble Picked clean by wayfaring strangers, a joke to all the neighbors. You declared a holiday for all his enemies, and they're celebrating for all they're worth. Angry, you opposed him in battle, refused to fight on his side; You robbed him of his splendor, humiliated this warrior, ground his kingly honor in the dirt. You took the best years of his life and left him an impotent, ruined husk. How long do we put up with this, God ? Are you gone for good? Will you hold this grudge forever? Remember my sorrow and how short life is. Did you create men and women for nothing but this? We'll see death soon enough. Everyone does. And there's no back door out of hell. So where is the love you're so famous for, Lord? What happened to your promise to David? Take a good look at your servant, dear Lord; I'm the butt of the jokes of all nations, The taunting jokes of your enemies, God , as they dog the steps of your dear anointed. ⁵² Blessed be God forever and always! Yes. Oh, yes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

broken: Psalms 80:12, Job 1:10, Isaiah 5:5, Isaiah 5:6

brought: 2 Chronicles 12:2-5, 2 Chronicles 15:5, Lamentations 2:2, Lamentations 2:5, Revelation 13:1-7

Reciprocal: Psalms 60:2 - broken Jeremiah 14:21 - remember Lamentations 2:6 - he hath violently Ezekiel 19:12 - she was Amos 9:11 - close

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou hast broken down all his hedges,.... Round about his vine, the church; see Psalms 80:12. A famous church was raised at Jerusalem, quickly after the death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, which seemed to be well filled, fenced, and protected; but on a sudden a violent persecution arose, and the members of it were made havoc of, and the ministers of the word were scattered abroad, and which was the breaking down of the hedges; and what was done to the church was taken by Christ as done to himself, as it is here spoken of him; see Acts 8:1, and this might seem contrary to the word and oath of God, that his seed should endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven, Psalms 89:29, when the first Christian church was used in this manner; but that providence was overruled, for the spread of the Gospel, and the interest of Christ, in other parts; see Acts 8:4, and so no objection to what is before said:

thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin; the same as before, the church of Christ, which seemed to be so well built and fortified; see

Isaiah 26:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou hast broken down all his hedges - His walls or defenses; all that he relied on for safety.

Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin - His towers, fortifications; defenses. The enemy has been suffered to destroy them. They are now heaps of ruins.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 89:40. Thou hast broken down all his hedges — Thou hart permitted the land to be stripped of all defence; there is not even one strong place in the hands of thy people.