Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
Parallel translations
- KJV Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
- BSB Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
- ESV Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
- NKJV Why have You broken down her hedges, So that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit?
- NASB Why have You broken down its hedges, So that all who pass that way pick its fruit?
- NLT But now, why have you broken down our walls so that all who pass by may steal our fruit?
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Isa 5:5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
- Ps 89:40–41You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
- Isa 18:5–6For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
- Nah 2:2For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.
- Luke 20:16He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”
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