Key Verse Spotlight
Psalms 80:12 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Why hast thou {then} broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?”
Psalms 80:12
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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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