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, ¹  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; ² 

from heaven the Lord will look toward earth, ³ 

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

and to set free those condemned to die, ⁴ 

Lamentations 3:50

3:50 until the Lord looks down from heaven

and sees what has happened. ⁵ 

[80:14]  ¹ tn Heb “O God, hosts.” One expects the construct form אֱלֹהֵי before צְבָאוֹת (tsÿva’ot, “hosts”; see Ps 89:9), but יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים (yehvah ’elohim) precedes צְבָאוֹת (tsÿva’ot) in Pss 59:5 and 84:8 as well. See also vv. 4, 7 for a similar construction.

[102:19]  ² tn Heb “from the height of his sanctuary.”

[102:19]  ³ 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.

[102:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “the sons of death.” The phrase “sons of death” (see also Ps 79:11) is idiomatic for those condemned to die.

[3:50]  ⁵ tn The phrase “what has happened” is added in the translation for smoother English style and readability.