Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
Parallel translations
- WEB It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
- KJV It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
- NKJV It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
- NASB It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They perish from the rebuke of Your face.
- NLT For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies. May they perish at the sight of your frown.
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Quick answer
The vine has been burned and cut down, and the people perish under God's rebuke. It acknowledges that the devastation comes ultimately from God's displeasure.
Overview
The imagery of burning and cutting depicts complete ruin, and the psalmist confesses that this judgment flows from God's rebuke. Yet naming God as the source is also the ground of hope, for the One who wounds can heal. This honest acknowledgment leads into the closing plea for revival and restoration.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- John 15:6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
- 2 Th 1:9They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
- Ps 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
- Ps 76:6–7At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lie stunned.
- Ezek 20:47–48Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
- Ps 79:5How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
- Isa 27:11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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