Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
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.
King James 2000
You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You have broken down all his walls; you have made his fortifications a 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 turned away from the covenant of Your servant; You have defiled his crown to the ground. 40 You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin. 41 All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a curse to his neighbors.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 80:12
Why have You broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord swallowed up all the dwelling-places of Jacob and has not pitied. In His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground. He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers.
Lamentations 2:5
Jehovah was like an enemy; He swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, and destroyed His strongholds. And He has increased mourning and weeping in the daughter of Judah.
2 Chronicles 12:2-5
And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had sinned against Jehovah
2 Chronicles 15:5
And in those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in, but great tumult was on all the people of the lands.
Job 1:10
Have You not made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have 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 on the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns. And on its horns were ten crowns, and on its heads was the name of blasphemy.