Bible in Basic English
"Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?"
— Psalms 80:12, Bible in Basic English
“Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?”
You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.
The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.
It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?
It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.
Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,
Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.