80:12 Why did you break down its walls, 1
so that all who pass by pluck its fruit? 2
80:13 The wild boars of the forest ruin it; 3
the insects 4 of the field feed on it.
1 sn The protective walls of the metaphorical vineyard are in view here (see Isa 5:5).
2 tn Heb “pluck it.”
3 tn The Hebrew verb כִּרְסֵם (kirsem, “to eat away; to ruin”) occurs only here in the OT.
4 tn The precise referent of the Hebrew word translated “insects,” which occurs only here and in Ps 50:11, is uncertain. Aramaic, Arabic, and Akkadian cognates refer to insects, such as locusts or crickets.