Psalms 80:14
O God of hosts! return, we beseech thee, Look down from heaven, and behold, And have regard to this vine!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
In Context
13The boar from the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the forest doth devour it.
15Protect what thy right hand planted; The branch which thou madest strong for thyself!
Cross References
Psalms 7:7Let the assembly of the nations compass thee about, And on their account return to the height!
Psalms 90:13Desist, O LORD! How long—? Have compassion upon thy servants!
Isaiah 63:17Why, O Jehovah, dost thou suffer us to wander from thy ways, And harden our hearts against thy fear? Return, for thy servants' sake, The tribes of thine inheritance!
Daniel 9:16O Lord, according to all thy goodness, let thine anger and thy fury, I beseech thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain! for because of our iniquities, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
Malachi 3:7From the days of your fathers have ye turned aside from my statutes, And have not kept them; Return to me, and I will return to you, Saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, “Wherein shall we return?”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 80:9-19
The Desolated Vine. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. 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… Read the whole commentary →