Psalms 89:40

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נֵאַרְתָּה בְּרִית עַבְדֶּךָ חִלַּלְתָּ לָאָרֶץ נִזְרוֹ

Transliteration

You-nēʾartâ bᵉrît ʿabdekā; you-ḥillaltā to-the-ʾāreṣ nizrô

Grammar Details

*nēʾartâ*: verb, piel perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you have abhorred
*bᵉrît*: noun, feminine singular construct - covenant of
*ʿabdekā*: noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your servant
*ḥillaltā*: verb, piel perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you have profaned
*lā-ʾāreṣ*: preposition + definite article + noun - to the earth/ground
*nizrô*: noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his crown

Word Meanings

*nēʾartâ*: you have abhorred/renounced/spurned
*bᵉrît*: covenant/agreement
*ʿabdekā*: your servant/slave
*ḥillaltā*: you have profaned/defiled/polluted
*ʾāreṣ*: earth/ground/land
*nizrô*: his crown/diadem/consecration

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 80:12 : 12 Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?
Lam 2:2 : 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Rev 13:1-7 : 1 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns, and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. 3 And [I saw] one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke {G4127} was healed: and the whole earth wondered {G1722} after the beast; 4 and they worshipped the dragon, because he gave his authority unto the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? And who is able to war with him? 5 and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, [even] them that dwell in the heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.
Isa 5:5-6 : 5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 6 and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
2 Chr 12:2-5 : 2 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Jehovah, 3 with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen. And the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. 4 And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem. 5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, Ye have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
2 Chr 15:5 : 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 lands.
Job 1:10 : 10 Hast not thou made a 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 89:38-39
2 verses
85%
38But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
39Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.
Ps 80:12-13
2 verses
82%
12Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?
13The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
Ps 89:41-45
5 verses
82%
41All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.
42Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
43Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.
44Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground.
45The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame. {H5542}
Isa 25:12
77%
12And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Ezek 26:9
75%
9And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Ps 62:3
75%
3How long will ye set upon a man, That ye may slay [him], all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Ps 55:20
75%
20He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.
Ps 73:18
74%
18Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
Lam 3:11
74%
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
Ps 89:10
74%
10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.
Amos 5:9
73%
9that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.
Jer 45:4
73%
4Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
Isa 22:10
73%
10and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;
Ps 80:16
73%
16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Amos 3:11
73%
11Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An adversary [there shall be], even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.
Isa 5:5
73%
5And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Isa 25:2
73%
2For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Joel 1:7
72%
7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Ps 74:6
72%
6And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
Lam 2:17
72%
17Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; He hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: And he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; He hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.
Job 19:9-10
2 verses
72%
9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
Isa 30:13
72%
13therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.
Isa 22:19
72%
19And I will thrust thee from thine office; and from thy station shalt thou be pulled down.
Lam 2:7-8
2 verses
72%
7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary; He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
Jer 25:37
72%
37And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
Isa 17:9
72%
9In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.
Prov 24:31
72%
31And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Ps 94:5
72%
5They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.
Job 22:9
72%
9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Isa 14:19
72%
19But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
Hab 3:14
72%
14Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors: They came as a whirlwind to scatter me; Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
Ps 60:2
72%
2Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
Ps 52:5
71%
5God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. {H5542}
2 Kgs 19:25
71%
25Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
Job 1:10
71%
10Hast not thou made a 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.
Job 14:19
71%
19The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.
Ps 9:6
71%
6The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.
Ps 44:19
71%
19That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
Mic 5:11
71%
11and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strongholds.
Ezek 31:12
71%
12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Jer 2:16
71%
16The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.
Hab 2:10
71%
10Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.