“Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;”
A prayer for intervention: "Turn again, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine!" The appeal for divine attention and intervention emphasizes that the situation has been allowed to deteriorate because God is not paying attention. The request to look down from heaven suggests that God has withdrawn divine gaze.
Church Fathers on Psalms 80:14
1. ...If perchance things obscure demand the office of an interpreter, those things which are evident ought to require of me the office of a reader. The song here is of the Advent of the Lord and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His vineyard. But the singer of the song is that Asaph, as far as does appear, enlightened and converted, by whose name ye know the synagogue to be signified. Lastly, the title of the Psalm is: “For the end in behalf of them that shall be changed;”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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