Parallel Verses
King James 2000
You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin.
New American Standard Bible
You have
King James Version
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
Holman Bible
You have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.
International Standard Version
You have broken through all his walls; you have laid his fortresses in ruin.
A Conservative Version
Thou have broken down all his hedges. Thou have brought his strongholds to ruin.
American Standard Version
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
Amplified
You have broken down all his [city] walls;
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
Bible in Basic English
All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.
Darby Translation
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou didst break down all his walls; thou didst set his fortifications a ruin.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You have broken down all his walls; you have made his fortifications a ruin.
Modern King James verseion
You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou hast overthrown all his hedges, and broken down his strongholds.
NET Bible
You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.
New Heart English Bible
You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou hast broken down all his defenses, Thou hast laid his fortresses in ruins;
Webster
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
World English Bible
You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin.
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 89:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
Perplexity About God's Promises
39 You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. 40 You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin. 41 All that pass by the way plunder him: he is a reproach to his neighbors.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 80:12
Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck its fruit?
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and its princes.
Lamentations 2:5
The Lord was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
2 Chronicles 12:2-5
And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
2 Chronicles 15:5
And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great turmoil was upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
Job 1:10
Have not you made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has on every side? you have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions are increased in the land.
Isaiah 5:5-6
And now; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:
Revelation 13:1-7
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.