Discovery BoxPsalms 80:12-13 
Context80:12 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.
Psalms 80:16
Context80:16 It is burned 5 and cut down.
They die because you are displeased with them. 6
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.
5 tn Heb “burned with fire.”
6 tn Heb “because of the rebuke of your face they perish.”
