Psalms 80:14
12 Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
13 The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
15 the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.
16 Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
- KJV
- Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
- WEB
- Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
- ASV
- Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,
- DARBY
- O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;
- BLB
- O God of Hosts, return, we pray! Look down from the heavens and see, and attend to this vine,
- ÅB
- Gud, hærskarenes Gud, vend tilbake, sku ned fra himmelen og se og ta deg av dette vintre
- OTB
- Hærskarenes Gud, vennligst vend tilbake;
Se ned fra himmelen og se, og ta vare på denne vintre, - B1930
- Gud, hærskarenes Gud, vend tilbake, sku ned fra himmelen og se og ta dig av dette vintre
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 63:15
Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
Read in contextMalachi 3:7
Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
Read in contextIsaiah 63:17
Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
Read in contextDaniel 9:16–19
O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
Read in contextPsalms 90:13
Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
Read in contextJoel 2:14
Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
Read in contextActs 15:16
‘After this I will return and rebuild the fallen tent of David. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,
Read in contextLamentations 3:50
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
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