Psalms 80:14

14 Return to us, God Almighty! Look down from heaven and see! Watch over this vine,

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Psalms 80:14 in Other Translations

KJV

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

ESV

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

NLT

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

MSG

14 God of the angel armies, turn our way! Take a good look at what's happened and attend to this vine.

CSB

14 Return, God of Hosts. Look down from heaven and see; take care of this vine,

Psalms 80:14 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 80:14

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 Luke 1:78 ) ( Acts 15:14 ) .

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible