For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
Parallel translations
- WEB For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
- KJV For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
- NKJV For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified.
- NASB ¶For we have been consumed by Your anger, And we have been terrified by Your wrath.
- NLT We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.
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Quick answer
Human frailty and death are tied to God's righteous anger against sin.
Overview
Moses links mortality to God's wrath: "we are consumed in your anger." Death is not merely natural but moral, a consequence of human sin before a holy God. This sober truth prepares for the gospel, where Christ bears that wrath so we might be reconciled (Rom. 5:9).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- 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
- Ps 90:11Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
- Ps 59:13Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah
- Exod 14:24At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
- Rom 2:8–9But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- Deut 2:14–16The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
- Heb 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Heb 3:10–11Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
- Num 17:12–13Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!
- Ps 90:9For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
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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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