KJV King James Version
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
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Psalm 80:14
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
WEB World English Bible
Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
ASV American Standard Version
Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine,
Surrounding context — Psalm 80
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
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.
14 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.
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.
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Isaiah 63:15Look 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?Isaiah 63:17O 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.Daniel 9:16-19O 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.Malachi 3:7Even 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?Psalm 90:13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.Psalm 33:13The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.Psalm 7:7So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.Acts 15:16After 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:Lamentations 3:50Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.Joel 2:14Who 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?
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