Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? - i:e., pluck off not merely the fruit, but the "branches" and "boughs," whose luxuriance he had just described in Psalms 80:11. The answer to the question is given in the threat, and the reason assigned by Yahweh in Isaiah 5:4-5. Compare also Psalms 89:40-41. Pul, Tiglath-pileser, Shalmaneser, and Sennacherib were these who did "pluck" Israel.