For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
Parallel translations
- KJV For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
- 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 you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
- Ps 90:11Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
- Ps 59:13Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.
- Exod 14:24In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
- Rom 2:8–9but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
- Deut 2:14–16The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
- Heb 3:17With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Heb 3:10–11Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways;’
- Num 17:12–13The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!
- Ps 90:9For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as 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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