Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,
till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.
Voices1
"If God, who now covers himself with a cloud, as if he took no notice of our troubles ( Job xxii. 13 ), would but shine forth, all would be well; if he look upon us, we shall be saved, " Ps. lxxx. Bad as the case is, one favourable look from heaven will set all to rights.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
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I will be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness; For thou hast seen my affliction: Thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.
For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; From heaven did Jehovah behold the earth;
Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.
Jehovah looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men;
And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness,
See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah’s remembrancers, take ye no rest,
O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, 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 round about us.
The walk8
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Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained…
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Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the ground which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearneth for him; I will surely have…
Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I cast thee off, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me,…
Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that sittest in the heavens.
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Lamentations 2:20See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in…
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The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in…
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Lamentations 5:1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
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