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12 It sent out its boughs as far as the sea,[a]
    its shoots as far as the river.
13 Why have you broken down its walls,
    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?(A)
14 The boar from the forest strips the vine;
    the beast of the field feeds upon it.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 80:12 The sea: the Mediterranean. The river: the Euphrates, cf. Gn 15:18; 1 Kgs 5:1. The terms may also have a mythic nuance—the seas that surround the earth; sea and river are sometimes paralleled in poetry.