Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 80:16

"It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance." — Psalms 80:16 (ASV)

It is burned. —This verse would certainly be far more intelligible, and also fit better into the rhythm, if it followed immediately after Psalms 80:13. The poet, while complaining that God fumed with anger while Israel prayed, would scarcely speak of themselves as perishing under His rebuke, which, in Psalms 76:6, is used of His attitude towards foes actually contending against Him. But if we read Psalms 80:13 and Psalms 80:16 together, we avoid this:—

“The boar out of the wood doth waste it
And the wild beast of the field doth devour it:
It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
Let them (the beasts) perish at the rebuke of thy
countenance.”

(See also Note to next verse.)