Psalm 89:40 {88:41}
Good News Translation
You have torn down the walls of his city and left his forts in ruins.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.

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Psalm 80:12 Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

Job 1:10 Hast thou not made a fence for him, and his house, and all his substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased on the earth?

Isaiah 5:5,6 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. . . .

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2 Chronicles 12:2-5 And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem (because they had sinned against the Lord) . . .

2 Chronicles 15:5 At that time there shall be no peace to him that goeth out and cometh in, but terrors on every side among all the inhabitants of the earth.

Lamentations 2:2,5 Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not spared, all that was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strong holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he hath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof. . . .

Revelation 13:1-7 And I saw a beast coming up out the sea, having seven heads and ten horns: and upon his horns, ten diadems: and upon his heads, names of blasphemy. . . .

Context
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
39Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth. 40Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.41All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.…
Cross References
Psalm 80:12
Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

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.

Lamentations 2:2
Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not spared, all that was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strong holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he hath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof.

Lamentations 2:5
He. The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath cast down Israel headlong, he hath overthrown all the walls thereof: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Juda the afflicted, both men and women.

Psalm 89:39
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