Psalm 89:40

Translations

Modern

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

Traditional

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

Literal

You have broken down all his walls; You have set his strongholds to ruin.

Latin

Destruxisti omnes sepes ejus; posuisti firmamentum ejus formidinem.

Original

Hebrew

English

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

Notes

Psalms 89:40

broken down all his walls: The Lord’s people are completely vulnerable.

Psalms 89:1–52

Book Three (Psalms 73–89) starts and ends with serious questions. Psalm 89 begins with praise for how the Lord established David’s throne and kingdom (89:1–37). But later the psalmist protests that the Lord seems to have rejected his covenant with David (Psalm 89:38–51; see 2 Samuel 7:8–16).

Theme notes and profiles

God’s Covenant with David Making Sense of the Exile Questions and Doubt Royal Psalms The Creator-King

Related verses

Psalm 80:12
Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
Lamentations 2:5
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
Lamentations 2:2
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
Job 1:10
Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
Isaiah 5:5–6
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
2 Chronicles 15:5
In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.
2 Chronicles 12:2–5
In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem
Revelation 13:1–7
Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.

Glossary

Anoint Ethan Music Peace Prophecy Psalms, Book of Zerah

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In

Psalm 89:40

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