Psalms 89:40

Bible in Basic English (1941)

All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

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  • Ps 80:12 : 12 Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?
  • Lam 2:2 : 2 The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.
  • Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
  • Rev 13:1-7 : 1 And he took his place on 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 crowns, and on his heads unholy names. 2 And the beast which I saw was like 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 seat and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been given a death-wound; and his death-wound was made well: and all the earth was wondering at the beast. 4 And they gave worship to the dragon, because he gave authority to the beast; and worshipping the beast, they said, Who is like the beast? and who is able to go to war with him? 5 And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months. 6 And his mouth was open to say evil against God, and against his name and his Tent, even against those who are in heaven. 7 And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.
  • Isa 5:5-6 : 5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it; 6 And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
  • 2 Chr 12:2-5 : 2 Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord, 3 With twelve hundred war-carriages and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people who came with him out of Egypt were more than might be numbered: Lubim and Sukkiim and Ethiopians. 4 And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem. 5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up into the hands of Shishak.
  • 2 Chr 15:5 : 5 In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.
  • Job 1:10 : 10 Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?

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    85%

    38But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.

    39You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

  • Ps 80:12-13
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    82%

    12Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

    13It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

  • Ps 89:41-45
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    82%

    41All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

    42You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.

    43His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight.

    44You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.

    45You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.)

  • Isa 25:12
    77%

    12And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • Ezek 26:9
    75%

    9He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • Ps 62:3
    75%

    3How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

  • Ps 55:20
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    20He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.

  • Ps 73:18
    74%

    18You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

  • Lam 3:11
    74%

    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Ps 89:10
    74%

    10Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.

  • Amos 5:9
    73%

    9Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

  • Jer 45:4
    73%

    4This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

  • Isa 22:10
    73%

    10And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

  • Ps 80:16
    73%

    16It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

  • Amos 3:11
    73%

    11For this reason, says the Lord, an attacker will come, shutting in the land on every side; and your strength will come down and your great houses will be made waste.

  • Isa 5:5
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    5And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

  • Isa 25:2
    73%

    2For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.

  • Joel 1:7
    72%

    7By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

  • Ps 74:6
    72%

    6Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

  • Lam 2:17
    72%

    17The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.

  • Job 19:9-10
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    72%

    9He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

    10I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

  • Isa 30:13
    72%

    13This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

  • Isa 22:19
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    19And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.

  • Lam 2:7-8
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    72%

    7The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.

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  • Jer 25:37
    72%

    37And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • Isa 17:9
    72%

    9In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

  • Prov 24:31
    72%

    31And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

  • Ps 94:5
    72%

    5Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

  • Job 22:9
    72%

    9You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

  • Isa 14:19
    72%

    19But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

  • Hab 3:14
    72%

    14You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.

  • Ps 60:2
    72%

    2By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.

  • Ps 52:5
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    5But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
    71%

    25Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

  • Job 1:10
    71%

    10Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?

  • Job 14:19
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    19The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

  • Ps 9:6
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    6You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

  • Ps 44:19
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    19Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

  • Mic 5:11
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    11I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

  • Ezek 31:12
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    12And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be.

  • Jer 2:16
    71%

    16Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.

  • Hab 2:10
    71%

    10You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.