For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Parallel translations
- WEB For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
- BSB For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
- 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 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
- Ps 90:11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
- Ps 59:13Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
- Exod 14:24And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
- Rom 2:8–9But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
- Deut 2:14–16And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
- Heb 3:17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
- Heb 3:10–11Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
- Num 17:12–13And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
- Ps 90:9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
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