Psalms 80:14
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy 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 behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
Read in contextMalachi 3:7
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Read in contextIsaiah 63:17
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Read in contextDaniel 9:16–19
O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
Read in contextPsalms 90:13
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
Read in contextJoel 2:14
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
Read in contextActs 15:16
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
Read in contextLamentations 3:50
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
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