Psalms 80:14

New Living Translation

Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven's Armies. Look down from heaven and see our plight. Take care of this grapevine

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
O God of hosts, return now, we beseech You;Look down from heaven and see, and visit this vine,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
O God of hosts, turn again now, we beseech You; Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Turne thee agayne thou God of hoastes I pray thee: loke downe from heauen, beholde and visite this vine

Darby Translation
O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;

New King James Version
Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts; Look down from heaven and see, And visit this vine

Literal Translation
O God of Hosts, we beg You, return! Look down from Heaven and see and visit this vine,

Easy-to-Read Version
God All-Powerful, come back. Look down from heaven at your vine and protect it.

World English Bible
Turn again, we beg you, God of hosts. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

King James Version (1611)
Returne, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: looke downe from heauen, and behold, and visit this vine:

King James Version
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Turne ye agayne (thou God of hoostes) loke downe from heauen, beholde & viset this vynyarde.

Amplified Bible
Turn again [in favor to us], O God of hosts; Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

American Standard Version
Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

Bible in Basic English
Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,

Update Bible Version
Turn again, we urge you, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and look, and visit this vine,

Webster's Bible Translation
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

New English Translation
O God, invincible warrior, come back! Look down from heaven and take notice! Take care of this vine,

Contemporary English Version
God All-Powerful, please do something! Look down from heaven and see what's happening to this vine.

Complete Jewish Bible
The boar from the forest tears it apart; wild creatures from the fields feed on it.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Returne we beseech thee, O God of hostes: looke downe from heauen and beholde and visite this vine,

George Lamsa Translation
Return we beseech thee, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine

Hebrew Names Version
Turn again, we beg you, God Tzva'ot. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.

New Life Bible
O God of all, we beg You to return. Look down from heaven and see. Take care of this vine.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on us from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;

English Revised Version
Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

Berean Standard Bible
Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine,

New Revised Standard
Turn again, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O God of hosts, return, we pray thee, - Look down out of the heavens, and see, And inspect this vine:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(79-15) Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:

Lexham English Bible
Please return, O God of hosts. Observe from heaven and see, and pay attention to this vine,

English Standard Version
Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,

New American Standard Bible
God of armies, do turn back; Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

New Century Version
God All-Powerful, come back. Look down from heaven and see. Take care of us, your vine.

Good News Translation
Turn to us, Almighty God! Look down from heaven at us; come and save your people!

Christian Standard Bible®
Return, God of Hosts. Look down from heaven and see; take care of this vine,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God of vertues, be thou turned; biholde thou fro heuene, and se, and visite this vyne.

Young's Literal Translation
God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine,

Revised Standard Version
Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,

Contextual Overview

⁸ You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine; you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land. ⁹ You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land. ¹⁰ Our shade covered the mountains; our branches covered the mighty cedars. ¹¹ We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea; our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River. ¹² But now, why have you broken down our walls so that all who pass by may steal our fruit? ¹³ The wild boar from the forest devours it, and the wild animals feed on it. ¹⁴ Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven's Armies. Look down from heaven and see our plight. Take care of this grapevine ¹⁵ that you yourself have planted, this son you have raised for yourself. ¹⁶ For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies. May they perish at the sight of your frown. ¹⁷ Strengthen the man you love, the son of your choice.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Return: Psalms 7:7, Psalms 90:13, Isaiah 63:15, Isaiah 63:17, Joel 2:14, Malachi 3:7, Acts 15:16

look down: Psalms 33:13, Isaiah 63:15, Lamentations 3:50, Daniel 9:16-19

Reciprocal: Psalms 6:4 - Return Psalms 28:9 - Save Jeremiah 38:17 - the God of hosts Daniel 9:18 - behold

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts,.... The Lord had been with his vine, the people of Israel, when he brought them out of Egypt, and planted and settled them in the land of Canaan, and made them a flourishing people; but had departed from them when he suffered the hedges about them to be broken down, and the boar and wild beast to enter and devour them; and here he is entreated to return and restore them to their former prosperity. So the Lord sometimes departs from his church and people, and hides his face from them; and may be said to return, when he manifests himself, shows his face and his favour again, and grants his gracious presence, than which nothing is more desirable; and if he, the Lord of hosts and armies, above and below, is with his people, none can be against them to their hurt; they have nothing to fear from any enemy:

look down from heaven: the habitation of his holiness, the high and holy place where he dwells, and his throne is, from whence he takes a survey of men and things; where he now was at a distance from his people, being returned to his place in resentment, and covered himself with a cloud from their sight; and from whence it would be a condescension in him to look on them on earth, so very undeserving of a look of love and mercy from him:

and behold; the affliction and distress his people were in, as he formerly beheld the affliction of Israel in Egypt, and sympathized with them, and brought them out of it:

and visit this vine; before described, for whom he had done such great things, and now was in such a ruinous condition; the visit desired is in a way of mercy and kind providence; so the Targum,

"and remember in mercies this vine;''

so the Lord visits his chosen people by the mission and incarnation of his Son, and by the redemption of them by him, and by the effectual calling of them by his Spirit and grace through the ministration of the Gospel; and which perhaps may, in the mystical sense, be respected here; see Luke 1:68.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts - Again come and visit thy people; come back again to thy forsaken land. This is language founded on the idea that God had withdrawn from the land, or had forsaken it; that he had left his people without a protector, and had left them exposed to the ravages of fierce foreign enemies. It is language which will describe what seems often to occur when the church is apparently forsaken; when there are no cheering tokens of the divine presence; and when the people of God, discouraged, seem themselves to be forsaken by him. Compare Jeremiah 14:8.

Look down from heaven - The habitation of God. As if he did not now see his desolate vineyard, or regard it. The idea is, that if he would look upon it, he would pity it, and would come to its relief.

And behold, and visit this vine - It is a visitation of mercy and not of wrath that is asked; the coming of one who is able to save, and without whose coming there could be no deliverance.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 80:14. Return - O God of hosts — Thou hast abandoned us, and therefore our enemies have us in captivity. Come back to us, and we shall again be restored.

Behold, and visit this vine — Consider the state of thy own people, thy own worship, thy own temple. Look down! Let thine eye affect thy heart.