King James Version
Psalms 80:12 in the King James Version says “Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 80 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?”
Psalms 80:12 · KJV
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. goodly: Heb. cedars of God
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
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properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“Why hast thou then broken down”
H6555to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“so that all they which pass”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
“by the way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
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