It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Parallel translations
- WEB It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
- BSB Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your 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 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
- John 15:6If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
- 2 Th 1:9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
- Ps 90:7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
- Ps 76:6–7At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
- Ezek 20:47–48And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
- Ps 79:5How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- Isa 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
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