“Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?”
The catastrophe is introduced: "Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?" The destruction of the vine's protective walls allows anyone to steal its fruit; the image suggests military vulnerability and the loss of secure borders. Those passing by—the surrounding nations—now freely help themselves to what Israel has produced.
Church Fathers on Psalms 80:12
1. ...If perchance things obscure demand the office of an interpreter, those things which are evident ought to require of me the office of a reader. The song here is of the Advent of the Lord and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His vineyard. But the singer of the song is that Asaph, as far as does appear, enlightened and converted, by whose name ye know the synagogue to be signified. Lastly, the title of the Psalm is: “For the end in behalf of them that shall be changed;”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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