“The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.”
The violation continues: "The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it." The wild animals (representing foreign nations or demonic forces) now prey upon the vine. The image of destructive animals consuming the vineyard is biblical metaphor for military invasion and conquest.
Church Fathers on Psalms 80:13
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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