Psalms 89:40 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁰Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

Psalms 89:40 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 80:12
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
Job 1:10
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Lamentations 2:5
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
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 vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 38-52)

In these verses we have, I. A very melancholy complaint of the present deplorable state of David’s family, which the psalmist thinks hard to be reconciled to the covenant God made with David. “Thou saidst thou wouldst not take away thy lovingkindness, but thou hast cast off.” Sometimes, it is no easy thing to reconcile God’s providences with his promises, and yet we are sure they are reconcilable;…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 40)

38-52. present a striking contrast to these glowing promises, in mournful evidences of a loss of God’s favor. cast off--and rejected (compare Psa 15:4; 43:2; 44:9).