Deuteronomy 26:15

26:15 Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors – a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Psalms 33:14

33:14 From the place where he lives he looks carefully

at all the earth’s inhabitants.

Psalms 80:14

80:14 O God, invincible warrior, come back!

Look down from heaven and take notice!

Take care of this vine,

Psalms 102:19-20

102:19 For he will look down from his sanctuary above;

from heaven the Lord will look toward earth,

102:20 in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners,

and to set free those condemned to die,

Lamentations 3:50

3:50 until the Lord looks down from heaven

and sees what has happened.


tn Heb “O God, hosts.” One expects the construct form אֱלֹהֵי before צְבָאוֹת (tsÿvaot, “hosts”; see Ps 89:9), but יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים (yehvahelohim) precedes צְבָאוֹת (tsÿvaot) in Pss 59:5 and 84:8 as well. See also vv. 4, 7 for a similar construction.

tn Heb “from the height of his sanctuary.”

tn The perfect verbal forms in v. 19 are functioning as future perfects, indicating future actions that will precede the future developments described in v. 18.

tn Heb “the sons of death.” The phrase “sons of death” (see also Ps 79:11) is idiomatic for those condemned to die.

tn The phrase “what has happened” is added in the translation for smoother English style and readability.