Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Thou hast broken down all his defenses, Thou hast laid his fortresses in ruins;
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 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.
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 Thou hast cast down the covenant of thy Servant, Thou hast profaned, to the earth, his crown; 40 Thou hast broken down all his defenses, Thou hast laid his fortresses in ruins; 41 All the passers by the way, have plundered him, He hath become a reproach to his neighbours;
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 80:12
Wherefore hast thou broken down its fences, So that all who pass along the way, pluck its fruit?
Lamentations 2:2
My Lord hath swallowed up - without pity - all the pastures of Jacob, hath laid waste - in his indignation - the strongholds of the daughter of Judah, hath brought them down to the ground, - hath profaned the kingdom, and the princes thereof.
Lamentations 2:5
My Lord hath become like a foe, hath swallowed up Israel, hath swallowed up all her castles, ruined his strongholds, - and hath caused to abound, in the daughter of Judah, lamentation and mourning.
2 Chronicles 12:2-5
And so it came to pass, in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, - because they had dealt treacherously against Yahweh; -
2 Chronicles 15:5
And, in those times, there had been no prosperity, to him that went out nor to him that came in, - for, great consternations, were upon all the inhabitants of the lands;
Job 1:10
Hast not, thou thyself, made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? The work of his hands, thou hast blessed, and, his substance, hath broken forth in the land.
Isaiah 5:5-6
Now, therefore, I pray you, let me tell, you, what I am about to do to my vineyard, - To take away the fence thereof And it shall be eaten up, To destroy the wall thereof And it shall be trodden down;
Revelation 13:1-7
And I saw, out of the sea, a wild-beast coming up; having ten horns, and seven heads, and, upon his horns, ten diadems, and, upon his head, names of blasphemy.